2022 Weill Cornell Medicine Startup Symposium

February

25

at

10:00am

RSVP to receive webinar link (The link will be sent the week of the event)

Do you have an idea for a medical device but aren’t sure what to do next or how to produce it? Join us in the brand-new BioVenture eLab for an exciting evening to discuss medical device innovation as we begin a new initiative to gather like-minded individuals interested in the field.

All backgrounds are encouraged to attend: i.e., surgeons, clinicians, researchers, business, graduate students, engineers etc.

Agenda

10:00AM - 10:15AM Welcoming Remarks

10:15AM – 11:15AM Building a Team Panel

11:30 AM - 12:30PM Keynote Speaker Stanley Lapidus

12:30PM – 12:45PM Announcement of the Resnick Prize Winner

12:45PM – 1:00PM Break

01:00PM – 4:00PM Investor Partnering (InvestConnect) (by invitation only)

Keynote Speaker: Stanley Lapidus

Stan Lapidus is an inventor and entrepreneur who currently serves on a number of healthcare and medical technology boards. He’s been founding CEO of three medical diagnostics companies. Two of them have been among the most successful diagnostics startups of all time:

Cytyc Corp which he founded in 1987, revolutionized early detection of cervical cancer through its development of the modern Pap test—the ThinPrep. The two ThinPrep prototypes are at the Smithsonian’s American Museum of National History.

EXACT Sciences, which he founded in 1995, pioneered non-invasive early detection of colorectal cancer through its Cologuard test. Since its introduction, Cologuard has become the fastest-growing test in the history of the diagnostics industry.

Stan holds 37 patents, primarily in methods for early detection of cancer. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering in 2014 for his work on the early detection of cancer. He also served as an instructor at MIT from 2001 to 2017. Stan graduated from Cooper Union in New York City with a BS degree in electrical engineering.

Panel: Building a Team at Your Startup

John Pena, MD, PhD
Founder & CEO
Aufbau Holdings/
Sonder Inc.

Cristina Ghenoiu
Principal
RA Ventures

Sven Karlsson
Venture Partner, AlleyCorp Healthcare Fund
Cofounder, PlateletBio

Peter Alff, PhD
Venture Partner
Orange Grove Bio

Loren Busby
Entrepreneur in Residence
Weill Cornell Medicine

Resnick Prize + BioVenture eLab Weill Women Innovators Investment Competition Announcement

The selection committee includes

Rick Lipkin - Catalytic Impact Foundation
Avi Rosenbaum - Tectonic Investments , partner
Danielle Capalino - Catalytic Capital, Advisor, Board Member

Speaker Block #3

R. Harrison

Robert Langer is one of 10 Institute Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); being an Institute Professor is the highest honor that can be awarded to a faculty member. He has written over 1,500 articles, which have been cited over 331,000 times; his h-index of 283 is the highest of any engineer in history and tied for the 4th highest of any individual in any field. His patents have licensed or sublicensed to over 400 companies. He served as Chairman of the FDA’s Science Board (its highest advisory board) from 1999-2002. His over 220 awards include both the United States National Medal of Science and the United States National Medal of Technology and Innovation (he is one of 3 living individuals to have received both these honors), the Charles Stark Draper Prize (often called the Engineering Nobel Prize), Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, Albany Medical Center Prize, Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, Kyoto Prize, Wolf Prize for Chemistry, Millennium Technology Prize, Priestley Medal (highest award of the American Chemical Society), Gairdner Prize, and the Dreyfus Prize in Chemical Sciences. He holds 34 honorary doctorates and has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Inventors.

R. Harrison

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