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Welcome to the Bioscience Entrepreneurship Program

Coming Soon: See the Proposed Entrepreneural Management Major Tracks and Non Business Minors

Applications for BEP due September 30,2010

NEW! Click Here to Watch the 2009 BioVenture Videos! (Featuring Guru Instruments, iDrop & RxQuote)

About Creighton University's Bioscience Entrepreneurship Program:

Creighton’s interdisciplinary Bioscience Entrepreneurship Program (BEP) began in February of 2008 with a $536,000 grant fundend by the National Science Foundation Partnership for Innovation Grant No. 0650233.  Sixteen undergraduate and graduate students came together from business, health science, law, and natural science programs at Creighton University. 

The program was created and is run by Dr. Anne York, associate professor of strategy and entrepreneurship and director of entrepreneurship programs at Creighton University.

One of a handful of programs in the country, the program trains students from these four key disciplines in the process of technology commercialization in bioscience.  Creighton University has formed strong partnerships with the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the greater Omaha community to ensure the success of the program.  Please view our BEP Curriculum for more details on our courses.

  • Creighton's National Science Foundation-funded Bioscience Entrepreneurship Program awards certificates to 14 at a graduation ceremony and reception on Saturday, Nov. 15. Final project presentations included business plans for a cochlear rejuvenation technology, a peptide for preventing gastrointestinal upsets in animals and humans, a model for managing chronic diseases via a centralized call center and software, and gait analysis hardware and software.
  • Creighton's Bioscience Entrepreneurship Program admits 17 for its second NSF-funded program class, including students from law, pharmacy, dentistry, occupational therapy, physical therapy, physics, biology, and business. The program's first course in Technology Commercialization begins mid-February.
  • Dr. Anne York presents "To Protect or Not to Protect:  That Is the Questions"  to Creighton's Honor Program students in their "One Minute" speaker series on intellectual property November .