Sept. 30, 2002

Start-Up Specialists Kick Off Biotechnology Entrepreneurship Series

Rensselaer's budding biotech entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to hear expert business advice at a series of lectures being presented on campus this year. The 2002-2003 Biotechnology Management and Entrepreneurship Seminar Series will focus on the wide range of issues that companies in biotechnology face today.

First up in the series are attorneys Ellen Corenswet and Daryn Grossman, who will arm hopeful entrepreneurs with the tools they need in their talk, "Patents and Business Models in Biotechnology: How To Start and Grow a Company With an Idea-a View From the Trenches." The lecture will take place Wednesday, Oct. 9, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Lally School of Management and Technology.

Corenswet and Grossman are partners at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP, representing private companies in technology and IP-related transactions.

The series is sponsored by the Lally School of Management and Technology and the Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship and co-marketed by the Center for Economic Growth and the New York Biotechnology Association.

The next speaker, James Mullen '80, Rensselaer trustee and president and CEO of Biogen Inc., will expound on his own perspectives on the industry on Wednesday, Nov. 6, while future lecturers will delve into bioethical issues, marketing strategies, and the evolution of the biotechnology sector.

"These movers and shakers will give everyone a fantastic perspective on the biotechnology industry," said Shreefal Mehta, research assistant professor of biotechnology management and the series organizer. "They will inspire and educate students, through their vision and their hands-on wisdom and experiences."

For more information and a list of future seminar dates, click on http://scte.mgmt.rpi.edu/bioentrepseries/index.html.