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NUS Entrepreneurship Centre
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"Funding and Starting Up The MIT Way"
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Seminars organised by
the Entrepreneurship
Centre are now on the
CIT NUSLive website |
Keynote Speaker :
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Mr. Leon Sandler, Executive Director
Dr. Charles Cooney, Faculty Director
Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, MIT
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Date :
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19 February 2008 (Tuesday)
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Time :
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6:00pm - 7:15pm
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Venue :
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Engineering Auditorium, National University of Singapore
Please click HERE for location map
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| Registration : |
Admission is FREE
(Please register before NOON, 19 Feb 2008) |
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About The Speakers
Leon Sadler is the Executive Director of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT. He received his Bachelor's degree (1971), Master's (1973) in Chemical Engineering from Natal University (South Africa) and MBA (1977) from the Stanford Business School. He worked as a chemical engineer for ICI in South Africa. He was a strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting group and then held senior management positions with ITT-Qume, Texas Instruments, Digital Equipment and Eastman Kodak. While at Texas Instruments he was the inventor of the TI Financial Investment Analyst calculator.
In 1993 he formed his own consulting practice, the Monmouth Group to help develop and grow early stage technology companies. He co-founded, Nuvonyx, a laser company in St. Louis spinning a technical team out of Boeing Corporation. He acted as an interim executive for several startups and was an advisor and consultant to many others. In 2003 he became a mentor at the MIT Venture Mentoring Service. Mr. Sandler became the Executive Director of the Deshpande Center in May 2006.
Mr. Sandler is actively engaged in the greater Boston entrepreneurial ecosystem and advises several technology start-ups. When not busy with his professional interests he enjoys playing golf.
Dr. Cooney, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, in the Department of Chemical Engineering. He is the Faculty Director of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, Co-Director of the Program on the Pharmaceutical Industry (POPI) and MIT faculty director of the Consortium on Advanced Manufacturing for Pharmaceuticals (CAMP). He obtained his Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966. His Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Biochemical Engineering are from MIT in 1967, and 1970, respectively. After a short post-doctoral time at the Squibb Institute for Medical Research in 1970, he joined the faculty of MIT as an Assistant Professor in 1970 and became a full Professor in 1982. He received the 1989 Gold Medal of the Institute of Biotechnological Studies (London), the Food, Pharmaceutical and Bioengineering Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the James Van Lanen Distinguished Service Award from the American Chemical Society's Division of Microbial and Biochemical Technology and was elected to the American Institute of Medical and Biochemical Engineers. He serves as a consultant to a number of biotech and pharmaceutical companies, is on several editorial boards of professional journals, sits on the Boards of Directors of Genzyme, BioProcessors and Biocon, Ltd (India), is a member of the BP Technical Advisory Council. He chaired the FDA Advisory Committee for Pharmaceutical Science from 2004-2006.
Prof. Cooney's research interests span a range of topics in biochemical engineering and pharmaceutical manufacturing. He has published over 300 research papers, over 30 patents and co-authored or edited 5 books including the recently published Development of Sustainable Bioprocesses: Modeling and Assessment, Wiley Press 2006. He has particular interest in bioreactor design, operation and control, downstream processing for recovery of biological products, processing of pharmaceutical powders and manufacturing strategy in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry and biomass conversion to fuels and chemicals. As founding faculty director of the Deshpande Center he is interested in the process of stimulating technological innovation and translating innovation into new company creation.
In addition to his professional interests, Prof. Cooney is a Trustee of Boston Ballet, and an Overseer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Other interests include rock climbing, skiing, high altitude mountaineering (with assents of Denali, Ama Dablam, Mont Blanc, Kilimanjaro, Huascaran), scuba diving and antique map collecting.
About MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation
The Deshpande Center was established at the MIT School of Engineering in 2002 to increase the impact of MIT technologies in the marketplace. Founded with an initial donation by Jaishree and Desh Deshpande , the Center depends on the financial and professional support of successful alumni, entrepreneurs, and investors to provide a sustainable source of funding for innovative research and guidance to help it reach the marketplace. Since 2002, The Deshpande Center has funded 64 projects with over $7 M in grants. 11 projects have spun out of the center into commercial ventures, having collectively raised over $88 M in outside financing. Twelve venture capital firms have invested in these ventures. The Deshpande Center supports a wide range of emerging technologies including biotechnology, biomedical devices, information technology, new materials, tiny tech, and energy innovations.
We are pleased to invite you and your colleagues to attend the talk.
As there is limited number of seats available, please click HERE to register for the talk by NOON, 19 February 2008.
Please forward this invitation to your friends and colleagues who may be interested.
Thank You!
Admission is FREE & we look forward to seeing you at the seminar.
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