Pre-Conference: Academic Entrepreneurship

Academic Entrepreneurship—Chapter 1: The Ins and Outs of Developing a Valuable Commercial Product

Join SfRBM for a special session highlighting the trials, tribulations and successes of drug development in an academic setting.  Hear redox investigators share their experiences identifying drug targets, developing compounds, conducting basic research, obtaining funding from private and public sources and clinical trials.   Learn approaches and techniques that may be helpful in your own future potential drug development projects.

Invited speakers:

• Brian Cunniff, University of Vermont, USA
• Yvonne Janssen-Heininger, University of Vermont, USA
• Carola Neumann, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Leslie Poole, Wake Forest University, USA
• Francisco Schopfer, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Cristina Furdui, Wake Forest University, USA
• Doug Spitz, University of Iowa, USA