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When and Where:

Friday, September 14, 2018, 8:30am - 4pm
The Chestnut Residence & Conference Centre, Toronto, Ontario

Workshop Overview:

The Clinical Translation Education Group (CTEG) will be hosting a one-day workshop on intellectual property (IP) and entrepreneurship. It will be aimed at highly-qualified personnel (HQP), with the objective of introducing key topics related to IP and entrepreneurship within the context of biotherapeutic technologies for scientists in academia.

Objectives:

• Understand, at a high level, what IP is.
• Understand how to conduct a patent search.
• Understand how to navigate the IP process with your university's Tech Transfer Office (TTO).
• Learn the fundamental aspects of entrepreneurship in the context of a biotherapeutic discovery.

Topics Covered:

• IP 101
• Conducting patent searches
• Working with your university’s TTO
• Keynote on IP
• How do I finance the development of my discovery?
• Introduction to business plans and term sheets
• Meet the experts in IP and entrepreneurship fields

Agenda and Speakers:

The agenda for the workshop is being finalized now. Please stay tuned for more information. Speakers will include:

• Stefan Larson, Venture Partner, Versant Ventures
• Katherine Bonter, Director of Intellectual Property, Clementia Pharmaceuticals
• Namrata Barai, Senior Manager, Business Development, Industry Partnerships and Commercialization, SickKids
• Patricia Folkins, Partner, Bereskin & Parr
• Philip Toleikis, President & CEO, Sernova Corp.
• Ainslie Little, Director of Intellectual Property, BlueRock Therapeutics
• Jonathan Yeh, Manager, Venture Development, CCRM
• Julia Pomoransky, Manufacturing Sciences and Technology, Turnstone Biologics
• Milica Radisic, Professor & Canada Research Chair, Functional Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering, University of Toronto
• Michael May, President & CEO, CCRM

What to Bring:

There will be an interactive session called "How to Conduct a Patent Search" during the workshop. Please bring a laptop computer or tablet so that you can participate.

This event is brought to you by the CTEG member organizations and is sponsored by Medicine by Design (http://mbd.utoronto.ca/) and C3i (https://centrec3i.com/en/home-2/)