Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Office Hours
April 6, 2017 To schedule for Office Hours, please contact Donna Magnano. Dr. Ali R. Alemozafar is an associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he focuses on patent prosecution, strate [...]
Naked Biome closes $5M Series Seed Financing for microbiome treatment of acne
Led by dermatologist Dr. Emma Taylor, the Naked Biome team is developing microbiome-based acne therapeutics. They have now closed a $5 million seed round to get them through clinical proof-of-principl [...]
An Introduction to Risk Management
March 30, 2017 Azita Alavi Regional Manager Harvard Risk Management Corporation While it may be impossible to eliminate all risk, Harvard Risk Management consultants work with companies to help reduc [...]
Biotech Investing with Versant Ventures
March 28, 2017Graham G. WalmsleyVersant VenturesGraham Walmsley is an Associate at Versant Ventures focused on biotechnology and healthcare investments. Graham joined Versant after completing his trai [...]
CIRM 2.0: Funding Translation of Stem Cell Based Treatments in California
March 24, 2017 Shyam Patel, Senior Science Officer, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) is California’s stem cell agency. Some the [...]
Fraud Prevention Seminar
March 23, 2017 Eddie Contreras, Senior Director, Fraud Prevention Debi Kutaka, Senior Fraud Risk Manager Silicon Valley Bank While early-stage entrepreneurs take big risks, they often ignore the subs [...]
Safety Assessment for the Investigational New Drug (IND) Application
March 21, 2017 Sue McPherson, Executive Director of Toxicology WuXi AppTec The success of an Investigational New Drug (IND) applications is one of the key milestones of the drug development process. [...]
Amgen Seminar and Office Hours
March 17, 2017 12:30 PM Networking and Lunch 1:00 PM "From bench to bedside - and you thought molecule identification was difficult!" Sean Lybrand, Director of Value, Access and Policy, Amgen Austral [...]
Planning for Business Income Taxes and Best Practices
March 3, 2017 Bong Hillberg Lewis Fischesser LLP Many pitfalls await the entrepreneur filing taxes for his or her startup. Mixing personal and business taxes, failing to account for expenses properly [...]