LifesciNYC

NYU Life Science Startup Bootcamp: Developing your Business Plan and Investor Pitch

What’s the purpose of the business plan? How do you develop it? What and how much information should you include? How do you capture investors’ attention? What are the different stages of the conversation? These and other questions are answered and very useful additional suggestions and resources are offered. (60 min)

NYU Life Science Startup Bootcamp: Essential Legal, Accounting & Tax Considerations for Startups

Another great session on legal considerations for lifescience/healthcare startup founders. (77 min)

Riverside Chats: Legal things you need to know

Jennifer Berrent and Lia Der Marderosian discuss different issues founders of lifescience/healthcare startups need to be aware of: IP, formation, incorporation, funding structures, taxation considerations, among others. (40 min- check out the complete video on NYC Tech Connect’s Vimeo page)

Riverside Chats: Eric Schadt

Eric Schadt discusses the opportunities and implications of using “big data” to investigate and understand human disease. (42 min)

Riverside Chats: Successful Transitions from Academia to Startups

Allen Fienberg from Intra-Cellular Therapies and Kambiz Shekdar from Chromocell and Westside Frangrances share their experiences, views and advice on transitioning into entrepreneurship and business development. (49 min)

Joseph DeRisi: Anti-Malarial Drug Development, iBioseminar

Dr DeRisi gives an overview of malaria, goes through a historical re-cap of existing anti-malarial therapies and gives a very good description of current approaches taken in his and other labs for the development of novel, more useful, more efficacious anti-malarial drugs. (24 min)

NYU Life Science Startup Bootcamp: Discovery to IND and IND to NDA

In this second session, we learn about the process of drug discovery and development, how that leads to an IND and that to NDA, and what the regulatory requirements and major hurdles are . (1 h 24 min)

John Cleese: A lecture on Creativity

In this endearing excerpt, John Cleese describes five factors needed to inspire creativity. (13 min)

Noam Wasserman: Make the leap, Kauffman Sketchbook

Noam Wasserman decribes the considerations potential founders must consider when deciding whether to “take the leap” to entrepreneurship. (3 min)

Brian Druker: Extending the Imatinib Paradigm, iBioseminars

Brian Drucker describes the lessons learned from the development of the highly successful anti-cancer drug Gleevec and how we can apply them to the development of future targeted therapeutics. (22 min)