DEN Faculty Entrepreneurship Workshop Series
Jake Reder, PhD, Director, New Ventures Office, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Cofounder, Director, & Chief Executive Officer, Celdara Medical will moderate this 3-week DEN Faculty Entrepreneurship
Workshop Series.
Workshops will address a wide range of key issues along the startup continuum and provide practical, down-to-earth guidance that will give faculty a well-rounded understanding of how to put their ideas into
action, including Intellectual Property ownership and commercialization and the connection with academia, market validation, product development, new venture formation, scaling, and venture financing.
Thursdays, 19 October, 26 October & 2 November 2017
3:30PM-5:00PM, followed by networking
Location: 19 October & 26 October -
Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center, Room 205
2 November - ROOM CHANGE -
Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center, Room 105
Limited to 25. FACULTY ONLY.
Register at den-faculty-e-ship-17F.Eventbrite.com
Co-sponsored by DEN and Celdara Medical
Workshop Sessions
Session 1: Faculty Intellectual Property ownership and commercialization and the connection with academia.
Thursday, 19-Oct-17
3:30PM – 5:00PM
Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center, Room 205
This session will cover principles of Intellectual Property ownership and commercialization, and special considerations when IP is developed in connection with the faculty role at Dartmouth.
Moderated by Jake Reder, PhD, Director, New Ventures Office, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Cofounder, Director, & Chief Executive Officer, Celdara Medical
Guest speakers:
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Nila Bhakuni, Director, Technology Transfer Office Dartmouth
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Charles Sentman, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Director, Center for Synthetic Immunity.
Session 2: Faculty New Venture Formation
Thursday, 26-Oct-17
3:30PM – 5:00PM
Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center, Room 205
This session will cover the topics of business formation, picking a team, and seed funding mechanisms, as well as considerations related to conflicts of interest when starting a company in an area similar
to your academic endeavors.
Moderated by Jake Reder, PhD, Director, New Ventures Office, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Cofounder, Director, & Chief Executive Officer, Celdara Medical
Guest speakers:
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Scott Ellison D'89, Esquire, Cook, Little Rosenblatt & Manson
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Joe BelBruno, PhD, Professor of Chemistry, Dartmouth College and Cofounder of FreshAir Sensor
Session 3: Faculty Fundraising & Venture Financing: Venture Capital, Angel Investors, & DEN Funding
Thursday, 2-Nov-17
3:30PM – 5:00PM
Class of 1978 Life Science Center 105 Sameth 1959 Classroom (NOTE ROOM CHANGE)
This session aims to provide foundational knowledge of seed and R&D funding, investor strategies, and government resources, as well as discuss the need to communicate beyond the confines of one’s discipline.
Moderated by Jake Reder, PhD, Director, New Ventures Office, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Cofounder, Director, & Chief Executive Officer, Celdara Medical
Guest speakers
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To be confirmed
Workshop Moderator
Jake Reder, PhD, Director, New Ventures Office, Geisel School of Medicine and Cofounder, Director, & Chief Executive Officer, Celdara Medical
Jake cofounded Celdara Medical and currently serves as a Director and as CEO. He had previously founded the New Ventures Office at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and still serves as its first Director.
Prior to Dartmouth, Jake led business development, open innovation, and knowledge management initiatives at Cabot Corporation where he served as a member of Cabot’s Research Council, Technology Board, and Nanotechnology EHS Council. Jake joined Cabot from
PolyTechnos Venture-Partners, a Munich-based venture capital firm. He has served on numerous non- and for-profit boards, including Virtici, MBV, StemSynergy Therapeutics, NIH’s TREAT Program and the University of Vermont’s SPARK Program. Jake has testified
before Congress on entrepreneurship, was appointed by the Governor to the New Hampshire Innovation Research Center’s Board of Directors, and by US Senator Jeanne Shaheen to her Small Business Advisory Council. Jake earned a B.Sc. with First Class Honours from
the University of Waterloo, and a Ph.D. (Chemistry) as a Brown-Wetherill Fellow at Purdue University and Ludwig Maximilians Universität.
Best wishes,
Sarah
Dartmouth Entrepreneurship
Sarah I. Morgan
| Dartmouth College
Program Manager
DEN Innovation Center
Phone: +1 (603) 646-8872 | 4 Currier Place, Suite 107 | Hinman Mail Box 6052 | Hanover, NH 03755
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