Thursday, March 4, 2010 5:30-6:30pm
014 Sitterson Hall UNC-Chapel Hill
NC BioStart – Accelerating Technology Development at UNC Chapel Hill and BeyondSpeakers: Dr. Richard Boucher – Executive Director of NC BioStart & NC BioStart Entrepreneurs in Residence, Drs. Perry Genova, Joel Shaffer, and Tom Mercolino
UNC’s new NC BioStart program was established to increase the commercialization of intellectual property developed by our public universities in North Carolina, beginning in the first year at UNC and eventually including all UNC system schools. The program was started by the School of Medicine to meet the goals of its Clinical Translational Science Award, in partnership with the Office of Technology Development and the Kenan-Flagler Business School.
Dr. Richard Boucher, Executive Director of NC BioStart, Director of the UNC Cystic Fibrosis Center, and UNC entrepreneur, will be discussing the goals of the program and the resources that will be available through NC BioStart to our faculty, staff, and students which include a range of services from connecting faculty with industry experts to assisting with writing of business plans. Faculty can also be matched with an Entrepreneur in Residence (ER) to receive further consultation to explore their ideas. ERs Drs. Genova, Shaffer, and Mercolino (who have more than 75 years combined industry product development experience) will also discuss some of the exciting work that is currently ongoing at UNC through this program.
For more information on NC BioStart please visit their website at: http://tracs.unc.edu/index.
For more detailed information please visit - http://research.unc.edu/otd/
