Technology Ventures Program

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About

Participation in the Technology Ventures Program would be beneficial to those members who are interested in pursuing careers in:

• Business development.
• Healthcare consulting.
• Intellectual property.
• University technology transfer.
• Venture capital.

The Technology Ventures Program aims to introduce participants to the concepts and practices of technology transfer. Specific activities will include:

1. Venture Capital Exposure
We offer two volunteer programs that offer valuable career development. Projects are designed to help participants learn the key factors required to identify good business development opportunities. Participants should come away with a solid understanding of technology licensing and entrepreneurship in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors.

A. Yale Office of Cooperative Research (OCR) Apprenticeship
Through involvement in this program, participants will collaborate with the Yale OCR in the commercialization of Yale technologies. You will be assigned a mentor in the OCR office and serve in a supportive role. If interested in applying to participate, please email a resume and brief statement of interest to our OCR Relationship Manager.

B. Connecticut Technology Council (CTC) Technology Ventures Program
Through involvement in this program, participants will collaborate local start-ups in Connecticut and perform pro bono in-house consulting in small teams with a focus on business planning for novel technologies. If interested in applying to participate, please email a resume and brief statement of interest to our CTC Relationship Manager.

2. Tech Impact @ Yale Publication

Tech Impact @ Yale is the newsletter published by the Technology Ventures Program.
(If interested in contributing, please email a brief statement of interest and your idea for an article to the Tech Impact Editor-in-Chief.)

Tech Impact @ Yale, Volume 3, Issue 1 (Friday, March 25, 2009)

Tech Impact @ Yale, Volume 2, Issue 1 (Friday, March 16, 2008)

Tech Impact @ Yale, Volume 1, Issue 1 (Friday, March 16, 2007)

3. Seminar Series
Ongoing seminars throughout the year presenting insights from professionals in involved in fields relating to developming companies based on novel technologies. Please view the YBPS Events Calendar for upcoming events!

News

Projects:

• A new drug target for controlling angiogenesis (since April 2006).
• A novel method for cell-specific siRNA delivery (since June 2006).

Awards:

• Yang Xie won the AUTM 2006 Eastern Meeting Scholarship to attend the Licensing Executives Society and the Association of University Technology Managers Joint Spring Meeting in Philadelphia, PA from May 10-12, 2006.

Links

Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM)
Licensing Executives Society (International)
Licensing Executives Society (U.S. and Canada)
Yale Office of Cooperative Research

Team

CTC Relationship Manager
Ram Swamy, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow

OCR Relationship Manager
Genevieve Ko, Ph.D. candidate, Pharmacology

Tech Impact @ Yale
Catherine Chen, Ph.D. program, Pharmacology (Editor-in-Chief)
Meredith Jackrel, Ph.D. candidate, Chemistry (Editor)
Lenka Kundrat, Ph.D. candidate, MB&B (Editor)

Technology Ventures Seminar Series
Maria Lebedeva, Ph.D. candidate, Genetics (Coordinator)

Other Active Members
Stacey Demento, Ph.D. candidate, Biomedical Engineering.
Lisa Wei Gu, Ph.D.
Catherine Planey, Yale College, with major in Biomedical Engineering.
Gaoping Xiao, Ph.D.

Alumni

H. Timothy Hsiao, Ph.D. candidate, MB&B (Program Advisor, Founding Member)
Nicholas Licciardello, Ph.D. candidate, MB&B
Kresimir Letinic, MBA/Ph.D. candidate
Yang Xie, Ph.D. candidate, MB&B (Founding Member)

Jennifer Holtzman
Jennifer will be receiving her Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and was previously Editor-in-Chief of “Tech Impact @ Yale”.

Rajkumar Sasidharan, Ph.D.
Raj is a Postdoctoral Associate in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, and will be a scientist at Carnegie Institute of Washington at Stanford University.

Charmaine Chan
Charmaine is a Ph.D. candidate in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, and the current YBPS Co-President.

Matthew Renda, Ph.D.
Matt works at PGxHealth in Yale's Science Park and was previously YBPS Co-president and an Associate Research Scientist at the Yale Stem Cell Center.

Juha Lauren, M.D., Ph.D.,
Juha is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Yale Department of Neurology, and currently the Director of the YBPS Consulting Program.

Kristen Massimine, Ph.D. (Founding Member)
Kristen holds her doctorate in Pharmacology from Yale and is currently a consultant with The Chartis Group.

Evan Mills (Founding Member)
Evan is a former employee of the Yale School of Medicine Child Study Center. He is currently working at Curagen.