Profile
"This course aims to (1) teach students how to transform a scientific idea into a business model and real product, the challenges of building a technology company, the issues in dealing with intellectual property, fund-raising, regulatory approvals, manufacturing and commercialization; (2) develop entrepreneurs and industry leaders in bio-businesses with tacit knowledge and important core values. These individuals and teams will in future help advance medicine, usher the transformation that genomics, proteomics, molecular biology and personalized medicine can bring to human health.
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What You'll Learn
"This course covers comprehensively the important elements required to build and develop a bio-business through a series of lectures and highly interactive tutorials, workshops and panel discussions with experts. A diverse team of lecturers will bring in expert practitioners' experience and knowledge on different aspects of a bio-business. The course guides the students through the process of generating an idea and developing it to a business pitch.
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Minimum Entry Requirement
Open to students and professionals from Life Sciences, Dental, Medicine, School of Public Health, Nursing (ie. Life Sciences, Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS), Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery(MBBS), Bachelor of Science (Pharmacy), Bachelor of Nursing, Biomedical Engineering, and related areas and businesses. In teamwork attendees must be able to develop and present a business-idea & -plan in the biotech or life sciences field.