Note: All attendees are also invited to an event on Thursday, May 4th, a day before the Industry Partnership Workshop.
New Business Opportunities for Science
Thursday, May 4th, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Harvard Business School
Spangler Hall - William's Room
Cross-disciplinary teams (comprised of students from the Business, Medical, Science, Engineering, Law, Government, and Public Health Schools ) will present commercialization plans for university science research. Jay Light, Dean of the Harvard Business School, Venkatesh "Venky" Narayanamurti, Dean of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Isaac Kohlberg, Senior Associate Provost and Head of the Office of Technology Development at Harvard will make brief remarks at 4 pm. Members of the Boston venture capital and technology transfer community will attend as well. Please see the PDF for complete details.
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| 8:30 - 8:45am |
Welcome
Dean Venkatesh "Venky" Naranyamurti, Harvard |
| 8:45 - 9:30am |
New Ways of Thinking About Polymers and Proteins
David A. Tirrell, California Institute of Technology |
| 9:30 - 10:15am |
Cell Engineering and Mechanotransduction
Donald Ingber, Harvard Medical School |
| 10:30am - 11:15pm |
Self-Assembly of Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine
Samuel Stupp, Northwestern University |
| 11:15 - 12:00pm |
On the Intersection of Biology and Materials Science
George Whitesides, Harvard University |
| 12:00 - 12:30pm |
Synthetic Niches For Cell Transplantation
David Mooney, Harvard University |
| 12:30 - 1:30pm |
Lunch, networking, and poster sessions |
| 1:30 - 2:00pm |
Cell fate determination: lessons from 2D translated to 3D
Debra Auguste, MIT & Harvard University |
| 2:00 - 2:30pm |
Cardiac Morphogenesis: Self-Assembly of an Auto-Regulating, Molecular Motor Ensemble
Kit Parker, Harvard University |
| 2:30 - 3:00pm |
Polyelectrolyte Nanoscale Assemblies for Drug Delivery
Paula T. Hammond, MIT |
| 3:15 - 4:00pm |
Shining Light on New Technologies for Wound Repair
Karen McNally-Heintzelman, WMR Biomedical, Inc. |
| 4:00 - 4:20pm |
Materials and Physiology
L. Mahadevan, Harvard University |
| 4:20 - 4:40pm |
Tools for Integrated NanoBiology
Robert Westervelt, Harvard University |
| 4:40 - 5:00pm |
The Center for Nanoscale Systems:
Harvard's Nanotech Toolshop
Charles Marcus, Harvard University |
| 5:00 - 5:20pm |
Harvard Initiative for Quantum Science and Engineering
Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University |
| 5:20 - 5:35pm |
Improving Harvard-Industry Relations
Oded Hecht, Business Development |
| 5:35 - 5:40pm |
Closing Remarks
Fawwaz Habbal, Harvard University |
