Category: Events

IGERT Nano-Bio Innovation Seminar with Marie Dlorio Date: 03/20/2013 Time: 4:40 pm Location: 335 Shillman Hall Speaker: Dr. Marie Dlorio, Executive Director, NRC, National Institute For Nanotechnology Marie D’Iorio is the Executive Director of the National Institute for Nanotechnology (NRC-NINT). Prior to this, she served as the Acting Director General of NRC-NINT and as the…

IGERT Nano-Bio Innovation Seminar with Job Elders Date: 03/20/2013 Time: 5:30 pm Location: 335 Shillman Hall Speaker: Job Elders, PhD, Director, Zinnergy innovation fund Job Elders is chairman and board member of several high tech companies and director of Zinnergy innovation fund. Previously, he has founded and developed five MEMS companies including C2V which was…

IGERT Nano-Bio Innovation Seminar with Jonathan Fleming Date: 02/27/2013 Time: 4:40 pm Location: 335 Shillman Hall Speaker: Jonathan Fleming , Managing Partner, Oxford Biosciences Partners Jonathan Fleming is the Managing Partner of Oxford Bioscience Partners, an international venture capital firm specializing in life science technology based investments, with offices in Boston, Massachusetts and Seoul, Korea. …

Translating Cancer Nanomedicines from Lab to Clinic: The NCI Cancer Nanotechnology Initiative Date: 02/06/2013 Time: 4:40 pm Location: 335 Shillman Hall Speaker: Dr. Piotr Grodzinski , Director, NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer NANO-BIO INNOVATION SEMINAR Dr. Piotr Grodzinski is a Director of NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer at the National Cancer Institute in…

IGERT Nano-Bio Innovation Seminar with Douglas W. Jamison Date: 02/20/2013 Time: 4:40 pm Location: 335 Shillman Hall Speaker: Douglas W. Jamison, Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, Harris & Harris VC Mr. Jamison has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since January 2009; as President and Chief Operating Officer from…

21st Century Innovation/Technology Date: 02/13/2013 Time: 4:40 pm – 5:30 pm Location: 335 Shillman Hall Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Donofrio, Former Vice Chairman of IBM Nick Donofrio is a 44-year IBM veteran who led IBM’s technology and innovation strategies from 1997 until his retirement in October 2008. He also was vice chairman of the IBM International…

The PDS Biotechnology Story Date: 02/13/2013 Time: 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Location: 335 Shillman Hall Speaker: Dr. Frank Bedu-Addo, President and CEO, PDS Biotechnology Corporation Frank Bedu-Addo is the President and CEO of PDS Biotechnology Corporation.  Frank has extensive business experience developing operational strategy, overseeing operations and managing profit and loss. He was most…

IGERT Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine Innovation Seminar with Dr. Lindy Fishburne Date: 01/30/2013 Time: 4:40 pm Location: 335 Shillman Hall Speaker: Dr. Lindy Fishburne, Executive Director, Breakout Labs Lindy M. Fishburne is the Executive Director of Breakout Labs and serves as the Senior Vice President for Investments at the Thiel Foundation. She leads the organization’s strategic development…

Web Seminar: Funding your Venture with Federal SBIR and STTR grants Date: 01/23/2013 Time: 4:40 pm Location: 335 Shillman Hall Speaker: Dr. Ben Schrag, NSF Program Director Ben Schrag joined the National Science Foundation as a Program Director in the areas of advanced materials and nanotechnology in May 2009.  Prior to this, he worked as Director…

Commercializing Nanotechnology: The NanoTerra approach Date: 01/16/2013 Time: 4:40 pm Location: 335 Shillman Hall Speaker: Myer Berlow, Chairman/Founder Nano-Terra Inc. Nano-Terra, Inc. was founded for the purpose of taking the nanotechnology innovations and science of Professor George Whitesides of Harvard ‘from the lab into the market place’. Our business model focuses on establishing long-term collaborations…