Fwd: Conference celebrates launch of new UCLA on-campus technology incubator
Patrick Sislian
Please see the email below announcing the launch of the UCLA incubator! This event is a great opportunity to find out how you can accelerate the launch of your tech start-up. I will be going and I encourage you to do the same. Don't miss out.
See you there
Patrick
From: Rodewald, Mike <mrod...@cnsi.ucla.edu>
Date: Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:38 AM
Subject: Conference celebrates launch of new UCLA on-campus technologyincubator
To: "Rodewald, Mike" <mrod...@cnsi.ucla.edu>
Advisory for Tuesday, March 24
Conference celebrates launch of new UCLA on-campus technology incubator
WHAT:
The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA and the UCLA Office of Intellectual Property and Industry Sponsored Research (OIP-ISR) will hold a conference to introduce UCLA's new On-Campus Technology Incubator at CNSI as a novel way to support faculty research and accelerate the commercialization of faculty-developed technologies. The incubator is also the first on-campus technology incubator to include a built-in education program.
The conference will bring together a unique mix of faculty entrepreneurs and representatives from industry start-up companies and venture capital firms, who will discuss the role of technology transfer and the importance of technology incubators and will present illuminating case histories.
WHEN:
3–6 p.m., Tuesday, March 24
WHO:
Conference participants will include:
Leonard H. Rome
Rome, CNSI interim director and senior associate dean of research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, will deliver welcome remarks.
Kathryn Atchison
Atchison, UCLA vice provost for intellectual property and industry relations, will speak about the incubator program and the role of technology transfer.
Gene Block
Block, UCLA chancellor, will deliver the keynote address.
The following will participate in a panel featuring industry and start-up representatives, faculty entrepreneurs and venture capitalists:
Jeff Green
Green, chief executive officer of Nano H2O, will deliver the panel keynote address.
Wenyuan Shi
UCLA professor of oral biology; founding scientist and chief scientific advisor, C3
Jim Kim
Lecturer at UCLA Anderson School of Management; senior partner, CMEA Capital
John Miao
UCLA associate professor of physics and astrophysics; TomoSoft Technologies, LLC
WHERE:
California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, 570 Westwood Plaza (Building 114) Los Angeles 90095
R.S.V.P. & INFORMATION:
For information and to R.S.V.P. for the event, please e-mail cnsie...@cnsi.ucla.edu. Additional information is available on the CNSI website (www.cnsi.ucla.edu) or by calling 310-267-4838.
BACKGROUND:
The Technology Incubator at CNSI is an innovative resource designed to accelerate the growth of entrepreneurial start-up companies and early-stage research projects based on technologies developed by UCLA faculty. The incubator will ultimately house four to five start-up companies, providing developmental lab space on campus with close access to UCLA faculty researchers and lab facilities.
The CNSI's physical facilities offer eight core lab facilities with state-of-the-art imaging instrumentations and nanofabrication clean rooms. A new incubation space is in development that will provide a suite of "research incubation" laboratories for new, highly interactive, cross-disciplinary research projects, as well as an integrated cluster of offices and conferencing facilities.
The incubator is also the first on-campus technology incubator to include a built-in education program. Future workshops are planned in cooperation with the UCLA Office of Intellectual Property and Industry Sponsored Research, the UCLA Anderson School of Management and the UCLA School of Law to provide start-ups with support in all areas of business development.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Jennifer Marcus | 310-267-4839 | jma...@cnsi.ucla.edu
Mike Rodewald | 310-267-5883 | mrod...@cnsi.ucla.edu
PARKING:
Parking will be available in Lot 9 on Westwood Plaza. Media should R.S.V.P. to media contact for parking reservations.
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Patrick Sislian
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Eng.
UCLA
email: psis...@gmail.com
phone: 310-869-9772