2022 Volunteer Recruitment List for EF Program

Partnerships / Licensing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Commercialization (Go-to-Market/Launch Planning)

Molecular Biology/Genetics, early-stage venture capital investment, life science-focused real estate

Happy to help with pitch dress rehearsals or connecting with fellows one-on-one for informational interviews

preclinical to clinical trials / translational; collaborating with other nonprofits; opportunity that repurposing provides patients (testing already approved treatments for new indications)

no preference/rank – whatever is needed or helpful

I’ll help however Nancy Tyrrell thinks I can.

1. R&D Development
2. Aesthetics
3. Data Science

Part of Allergan Aesthetics/AbbVie

Pharmaceutical business development perspective: Pitch decks, determine whether a proposal is clinically / commercially meaningful (technical assessment/due diligence), advice on clinical development

Current member of the AbbVie business development team. My colleague Margarita Chavez has asked members within the AbbVie Corporate Strategy Office to get involved within the Chicago biotech ecosystem.

Biotech and Medical device Business Development and Acquisitions
Pharmacy
Immunology

Strategy and white space assessment — innovation frontier and unmet need
Product / market fit
Commercial assessment

Formerly a member of AbbVie’s corporate strategy team, where I conducted white space assessments and developed disease area and therapeutic area strategies. Currently a member of AbbVie’s commercial development team, where I lead new product planning from a commercial perspective (target market, key unmet needs, target product profile, competitive assessment, etc.)

Kidney disease
Medical innovation
start up and the function of Venture Capitalist

building a successful start up
molecular and translational science
integration of science into medical enterprise

I am excited to see the activities of the CBC and would like to share my experiences with the program and constituents.

Therapeutics
Diagnostics
AI-driven drug discovery

Networking (VCs, corporates), Business Development, unit economics / business feasability

I’m happy to help in any way that I can and I think it’s most valuable for future entrepreneurs to connect with other entrepreneurs and learn their stories. Thus, I’d be happy to just spend a bit of time telling my story, the story of Stemloop, and be available for questions or as a resource to the fellows.

Synthetic biology, sensors and diagnostics, RNA

R&D (diagnostics, cardiovascular, oncology), business development/strategy, alliances and fundraising

Commercializing university technologies

Venture creation
University technology transfer

Pitch Frameworks, running a fundraising process, culture and values.

Fundraising, pitching, business models

Looking forward to plugging in where helpful!

Intellectual Property for startups

Intellectual Property/Patents/startups
Licensing

30 minute office hour once per month

Drug Development, Scientific Due Diligence

Drug Development
Creating Opportunities to Lead
Career and Professional Development

Startup journey (in general and specific to Dimension Inx); what it takes to raise seed capital

Deep tech startup strategy
Early stage company building
Team formation

strategy
biopharma
commercial ops

Therapeutic target identification and validation, Drug discovery stages and milestones, New modalities in drug discovery

1. Therapeutic target identification and validation
2. Drug discovery stages milestones
3. DD project management

1. Clinical Medicine ( general)
2. Community engagement
3. Academic Research/Minority Biomedical educational pipelines

Very excited for this CBC inaugural Entrepeneurial Fellowship class. Will help in any way that I can.

Biotech entrepreneurship, drug discovery, carriers in biotech/pharma

drug discovery
biotech entrepreneurship
oncology and neuroscience

happy to help in any way that I can

Business development, fund raising, networking.

1) fundraising: non dilutive and dilutive
2) regulatory affairs
3) medical device commercialization

1. Business building (how to take a raw technology and build a business around it);
2. Management recruitment, team building; and
3. Capital formation – fundraising.

I am always happy to co-mentor, as I think that is a value-added situation. I am available all days, but of course, there will be exceptions from time to time.

Biomedical partnering, licensing, and investment transactions
VC Investing and investor/partner pitch coaching
Company operations management

Thinking about Your Science as a Potential Product or something like that comes to mind.

1) Wearing lots of hats at once – science, operations, marketing, networking
2) Non-dilutive funding from NIH
3) Logistics of starting a university spinoff

Happy to help out in other areas besides the topics I listed.

Biotech company creation and investing

Investing
Company creation
Biotech research

Pharmaceutical R&D
Business Strategy
Innovation
Team Building & Culture

Pharmaceutical R&D
Business Strategy
Innovation
Team Building & Culture

early-stage technology commercialization, intellectual property, go-to-market strategy/product-market fit

Pharmaceutical commercialization (marketing, market access/channel management, sales, PR, corp comms, government affairs) and start-up.

Pharmaceutical Marketing (Commercialization)
Pharmaceutical Market Access/channel management
Pharmaceutical Sales/Sales Leadership