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Top 5 NYC Stories of the Week

Columbia University Medical Center: New Prenatal Gene Test Proposed as Standard of Care

Einstein Researchers Receive Two Grand Challenges Explorations Grants to Combat HIV and Tuberculosis

Protein Sciences to Inhabit Pfizer Facilities to Make Next-Gen Flu Vaccine

National Multiple Sclerosis Society and Critical Path Institute Create the Multiple Sclerosis Outcome Assessments Consortium

Merck Initiates Phase II/III Study of Investigational BACE Inhibitor, MK-8931, for Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease

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Top 5 NYC Stories of the Week

The Few and the Proud: The Biotech Startup Class of 2012 (Including NYC's Cibiem)

New York Cited as Leader in Bio-Pharma Research

Robert Darnell Joins New York Genome Center as President and Scientific Director

Weill Cornell Medical College Joins "Measure Up, Pressure Down" National Campaign to Improve Prevention, Detection and Control of High Blood Pressure

Regeneron Named Biotechnology Company of the Year

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December 2012 Events

Talks, Panels, and Discussions

12/4 12PM IP & Pizza, Cornell Center for Technology Enterprise and Commercialization (CCTEC)

12/4 5:30PM Seminar & Social Hour, CCTEC

12/10 7PM Structure Your Venture for Impact, The Inventure Company

12/11 8:30AM Systems Biology Approaches to Drug Discovery: Single Gene Targeting is Not Enough, NYAS

12/12 3PM Tri-Institutional Alzheimer Disease Research Seminar, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

12/12 6PM Perfecting Your Business Development Strategies, New York Technology Council (NYTECH)

12/13 7PM SpotOn NYC: DIY science, SoNYC

12/14 8AM Novel Therapeutic Targets in Myocardial Infarction, NYAS

Workshops

11/30-12/1 9AM Making the Leap: A Non-Academic Career Planning & Job Search Boot Camp, NYAS

12/6 6:30PM Bio & Health Tech NYC Entrepreneurship Lab Information Session, NYCEDC

Networking

12/6 6PM NYBA 2012 Holiday Celebration, NYBA

12/12 6:30PM Healthcare Revolution: NYC / Holiday Gala and Charity Art Auction, Health 2.0

Conferences and Symposia

11/27 1PM New York City Emerging Technology Summit, NYC TechConnect, MSKCC

11/28-11/30 7AM Partnering for Cures

12/13-12/14 7:30AM Life Sciences Summit, Center for Biotechnology, Demy-Colton Life Science Advisors 

We try to make this curated list as comprehensive as possible. If we’ve missed a relevant event, or if you would like to notify us of your events in advance, please contact us at innovation [at] lifescinyc [dot] com. Thank you!

(Updated 12/1)

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September 2012

Talks, panels, discussions and pitches

9/11 6PM Riverside Chat: Legal Things you Need to Know, NYC Tech Connect

9/13 5:30PM Making NYC a Bio and Tech Mecca, MIT Enterprise Forum, LES 

9/13 6PM NYC MedTech Program

9/19 6PM Are you Serious? Pitching and Networking Session, The Hatchery

9/28 5:30PM CCTEC Seminar and Social Hour: Exploring the benefits and commercialization potential of nicotinamide riboside

  Conferences and Symposia

9/10 9AM Rodman & Renshaw 14th Annual Healthcare Conference

9/17 1:30PM Pharmaceutical Strategic Alliances Conference 

9/19 9AM Health IT Summit, NYeHealth, iHT2 

9/25 5:30PM Technology you Can Touch, NYC Tech Connect  

9/27 10:30AM 3rd Annual Hope on the Horizon: New Drugs for Alzheimer’s Disease Symposium, Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation 

9/28 1PM NYC Startup Job Fair

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10/4 5:30PM Reinventing Biotech’s Business Model for the Big Apple, Xconomy 

10/10 9AM 7th Annual Translational Stem Cell Conference, NYSCF

10/15 9AM NYeHealth Collaborative Digital Health Conference 

10/15 6:30PM NYeHealth Gala 

10/27 9AM Translating Science into Innovation in Healthcare Course

10/31 Life Sciences Summit

11/2 8AM 9th Annual Healthcare Conference, Columbia Business School   

11/27 1PM NYC Emerging Technologies Summit, NYC Tech Connect

If we’ve missed a relevant event, or if you would like to notify us of your events in advance, please contact us at innovation [at] lifescinyc [dot] com. Thank you!

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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)

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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)

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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)

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Riverside Chats: Eric Schadt

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

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July 2012

Talks, panels, discussions and pitches

7/18 6PM Pitch Yourself Into The Shark Tank: Season 2, Health2.0NYC

7/31 5:30PM ROI realities: how to create world-class marketing on a limited budget, NYCHBL

7/31 6PM Patients 2.0: Introducing the empowered Patient Panel, Health2.0NYC

Conferences and Symposia

7/10 12PM MedTech Conference: “Big Market, Big Idea, Big Execution”, LSAN

7/12 8:30AM OneMedForum NY 2012, OneMedPlace

7/18 8AM 7th Annual New Energy Symposium, NYAS

7/19 8:30AM Social Communications & Healthcare Case Studies and Roundtables, NYCHBL

Networking

7/18 6PM Hatchery Blast Off Party, The Hatchery

7/19 6PM NYBA-LES Summer Rooftop Soiree at Bryant Park Grill, NYBA, LES

Looking ahead

8/7 6PM Riverside Chat: From Entrepreneur to Major Player in Stem Cell Research, Tech Connect, NYCSCF

If we’ve missed a relevant event, or if you would like to notify us of your events in advance, please contact us at innovation [at] lifescinyc [dot] com. Thank you!

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June 2012

Talks, panels and discussions 6/4 6:30PM Angel Pitch: Funding Roundtable, General Assembly

6/7 11:30AM The $1000 Genome Revolution Panel, NYBA

6/7 6PM The Age of "Big Data" in Bioscience is Here- But are we Prepared for it? MIT Enterprise Forum and LES

6/12 6PM Riverside Chats, NYC Tech Connect

6/12 6PM Innovative Pharma Deal Making: Collaboration among Competitors, LES

6/14 8:30AM Crowdfunding and Raising Capital on the Web The Impact of the JOBS Act, ITAC

Conferences and Symposia

6/5 9AM NY Cell Death Meeting 

6/8 8AM Brain Tumor Biotech Summit, Weill Cornell Brain and Spine and Cancer Centers

6/15 9AM Imaging Neurodegeneration and Repair in Multiple Sclerosis, NYAS 

[Albany] 6/1 Capital Region Commercialization of Innovation Day, Bioconnex

[DC] 6/5 9AM Health Data Initiative Forum III: Health Datapalooza, HDI

[Boston] 6/18 8AM BIO International Convention, BIO http://convention.bio.org/

Networking 6/6 4:30PM Bio Networking Cruise, NYBA

Looking ahead 7/18 8AM 7th Annual New Energy Symposium, NYAS

7/18 6PM Patients 2.0: Introducing the ePatient, Health 2.0 NYC

We try to make this curated list as comprehensive as possible. If we’ve missed a relevant event, or if you would like to notify us of your events in advance, please contact us at innovation [at] lifescinyc [dot] com. Thank you!

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Top 5 NYC stories of the week

Academic and private-sector consortium announced the creation of the applied sciences campus “NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress” on Jay St, Brooklyn here

NYeHealth and NYCIF launched NY Digital Health Accelerator to fund and mentor HealthIT innovation here

The Starr Foundation awarded a $50M gift to the Tri-Institutional Stem Cell Initiative here 

Columbia scientists identify mechanism that controls retention and release of the brain’s stem cells here  

Rockefeller University created Cohn-Steinman Professorship to honor discoverers of dendritic cells here

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May 2012

Talks

5/8 6PM Riverside Chat with Eric Schadt, NYC TechConnect

5/23 6PM Identifying Drug Targets for Alzheimer's and Other Neurological Diseases, Rockefeller University Bridge to Better Medicine 

Panels and discussions 5/4 1PM Startup Roundtable, NYEBN

5/8 6PM Leveraging the Scientific Mindset in the Entrepreneurial World, NYAS

Workshops and Courses 5/7 6:30PM Intro to Bioinformatics, Genspace

5/9 9AM Drug Development for the Non-Scientist 1-day Course, BiotechPrimer, NYBA

5/10 8:30AM Medical Device Development Bootcamp, Cornell Commercialization and Tech Transfer Office NYC

Conferences and symposia 5/4 9AM Targeting Vasculature in Alzheimer's Disease and Vascular Cognitive Impairment Symposium, NYAS

5/2 8AM New York Biotechnology Association Annual Meeting, NYBA

5/11 8:30AM HIV/AIDS Update: Prevention, Treatment and Beyond Symposium, NYAS 

5/14 8:30AM A Scientific Symposium in Memory of Ralph Steinman, Rockefeller University

5/14 12:30PM Biotechnology Institute 10th-year Anniversary, St John's University

5/15 12PM Cancer Vaccines and Cancer Immunotherapy & Immunomodulation Symposium, NYAS

5/17 8:45AM Connecting Healthcare + Social Media, NYCHBL

5/17 9AM Pharmaceutical Competitive Landscape Seminar: Market Access, Decisions Resources Group

5/19 9AM Startup Product Development Day Conference, General Assembly 

5/21 9AM Biotechnology Symposium, SUNY ESF, SUNY Upstate Medical Center

5/24 8AM Funding Healthcare in the Age of Challenges, Incubators and Crowds, Health 2.0 NYC

Expos and Fairs 5/2 7PM SONYC Demo Night, SONYC

5/10 9AM Janssen Connected Care Challenge Demo Day 

Looking ahead

6/5 9AM NY Cell Death Meeting  Register by 5/31, posters 5/15

6/20 6PM Patients 2.0: Introducing the ePatient, Health 2.0 NYC

[Albany] 6/1 Capital Region Commercialization of Innovation Day, Bioconnex

[DC] 6/5 9AM Health Data Initiative Forum III: Health Datapalooza, HDI

[Boston] 6/18 8AM BIO International Convention, BIO  - Check out their volunteer program (volunteer 2 days, attend 2 days for free)

We try to make this curated list as comprehensive as possible. If we’ve missed a relevant event, or if you would like to notify us of your events in advance, please contact us at innovation [at] lifescinyc [dot] com. Thank you!

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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)

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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)

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Top 5 NYC stories of the week

Twenty six NY-based scientists & scholars were elected as members to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences here

Mount Sinai students received national recognition for innovative program on human rights in medicine here

The Associated Medical Schools of NY released its 2012 Stem Cell Report: NY’s investment in stem cell program keeps generating new medical treatments, research and jobs here

Columbia Medical Center scientists identified potential treatment for lethal childhood leukemia here

Montefiore Hospital, first integrated medical center in the country to introduce novel system-wide recycling program for sharps here

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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)

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John Cleese: A lecture on Creativity

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