Autumn is harvest time. It's the time we finish our work for the season and reflect on the year that was. Here are some reflections on the year that was. |
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Researcher Kevan Shokat dominated our research news this Summer. See what he's been working on. |
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InVent Fund Helps Launch UCSF Startup |
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In the newest episode of the UCSF Innovation Ventures podcast series, we direct our microphone toward philanthropic support and how our InVent Fund endows our academic researchers to ensure the University’s most promising healthcare discoveries are fulfilled.
Roopa Ramamoorthi, senior associate director of the InVent Fund, joins in conversation with Kevan Shokat and Natalia Jura about innovation, entrepreneurship, and insights on their InVent Fund project for a Novel Class of HER3 inhibitors and is part of the UCSF spin-out company Rezo.
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Phase One Data, a Major Launch,
and a Big Collaboration
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The Busy Summer of Kevan Shokat |
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Fall Entrepreneurship is Underway
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The 4th cohort of our global class, Entrepreneurship for Life Science/Healthcare Startups: Master Class Direct from Silicon Valley, is underway with participants from 14 countries in North America, South America, Asia, and Europe.
The group encompasses scientists, clinicians, academic faculty, CEOs, startup teams, Pharma executives, investors, and incubator/tech transfer heads. Their commonality is wanting to learn about entrepreneurship as we practice it in Silicon Valley. Guest lecturers have included Stanford's Steve Blank, Cofounder and CEO of Mammoth Biosciences' Trevor Martin, Vern Norviel from Wilson Sonsini, Cofounder and CEO of GenEdit, Kunwoo Lee, and Ilana Fogelman, a former FDA reviewer, and a startup CEO in her own right.
The class is running until December and will end with a Future of Medicine presentation by Daniel Kraft, MD, TED speaker and Chair of Medicine from Singularity University.
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Stephanie Marrus, MBA, Managing Director, Entrepreneurship who created the class at the start of Covid in 2020, notes: “This class has definitely met a need – for global connection, online,
for professionals in the life science and healthcare entrepreneur community. ext Link
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Our top-tier Silicon Valley lecturers deliver outstanding content. We have reached participants in 27 countries and 6 continents in two years and word about this unique resource is spreading around the world.” T
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