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Student Business Plan Presentations

Bioscience Entrepreneurship Program
Technology Commercialization Business Plan Presentations

The videos below are the business plan presentations from our 2008 pilot class of students in the Bioscience Entrepreneurship Program (BEP).  The BEP is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. The student’s presentations are either licensing or start-up business plans for a compression garment product called Edemawear (www.edemawear.com). Each of the four teams is introducing their product in a different market:  post-surgical, renal dialysis, cosmetic, or running.  The product is the invention of Dr. Martin Winkler, an inventor and Omaha vascular surgeon who is a clinical professor of practice at Creighton and has been team-teaching the course this semester.   

  • Class of 2008
  • Introductions: Anne York & Dean Anthony Hendrickson
  • Team Presentations:
    1. Swells (edemawear)
      Team: Lauren Dwyer, Johnny Zapala, Brittney Maloley, Jon Cowin
      Team Mentor: Mary Ann Wendland
    2. Jedi (dialysiswear)
      Team: Luke Mohrhauser, Mark Hsiao, Debashish Ghosh, Glenn Woster
      Team Mentor: Lee Fenicle
    3. Cornrows (runovate)
      Team: Michael Young, Ben Katt, Mike Peters, Michelle Trentman
      Team mentor: Dr. Martin Winkler
    4. Synergy (retroderm)
      Team: Mandy Cherney, Tyson Benson, TaSheitha Anazia, Dathe Bennison-Messan
      Team Mentor: Dr. Anne York

Our Partners:
UNMC, UNeMed, Stinson Morris Hecker, Booz Allen Hamilton, Bill Kizer, Polsinelli, Blackwell Sanders, SafeStitch, bionebraska, Nature Technologies, Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce

Our Judges:
Jim Krieger, Doug Nielsen, Skip Quint, Dave Erker, Jeffrey Schrager, Mark Mowat, Jeff Hanson, Mark Huber, Jim Linder, Pete Ricketts, Ann Nelson, Steven Clinch, Sue Coberly, Bob Meyer, Katie Norton, Mark Ryan, Ray Walden, Scott Wattenhhoffer

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  • 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 .