Look at what's in store for BEP!
BEP Presents: BioVenture 2009
BioVenture 2009 will feature the final presentations of our Bioscience Entrepreneurship Program graduates. This year’s teams will be presenting their own technologies: Guru Instruments, autopsy products; I-Drop, an I-Phone application for diabetes management; and RxQuote, a pharmaceutical benefits comparison software.
This year, our Bioventure event will be held on Thursday evening, November 19, at our new Halo Institute located at 1022 Leavenworth Street in the Old Market at 6:00 p.m.
The price of admission to the presentations, cocktail party, poster sessions, and awards ceremony is a $100 bill, which you will award to the plan that you believe has the greatest likelihood of success. Please be sure to RSVP (anneyork@creighton.edu or 402-216-7750) so that we can get an accurate count for the cocktail party.
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR AI2V COMPETITION WINNERS!
Congratulations to Single Port Solutions! Michael Wirtz, Kyle Faith, and Miao Wang, were the winning presenters at Creighton University's Advanced Invention2Venture Conference held May 28-May30.
This cross-functional team from the University of Cincinnati created a surgical instrument that will revolutionize laproscopic procedures. Single Port Solution's team is comprised of a surgeon, two Biomedical Engineers, and a product designer. Congratulations!
To read the Omaha World Herald article on the AI2V conference at Creighton University, click here.
Advanced Invention2Venture Workshop May 28-30
In conjunction with the National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA),
Creighton Unviersity is hosting an Advanced Invention2Venture Workshop at the Mike & Josie Harper Center May 28-30. Teams from all over the country will come to Omaha to have an opportunity to conduct critical and strategic analysis about their business start-ups. Developing, licensing, and testing are but a few topics that will be discussed at this intense 3 day workshop! Each team will practice pitching and interacting in professional settings with qualified coaches to develop and articulate a strategic plan for their venture.
Venture presentations will take place on Saturday, May 30, from 3-4:30 in Harper Center room 3048. The public is welcome to attend.
A special thank you to our partners:
Creighton University College of Business Administration
Creighton University Intellectual Resource Management
Creighton University Microbology Department
Compression Dynamics, Inc
GTx Corp
National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance
Omaha Chamber of Commerce
Stinson, Morrison, Hecker, LLC
UneMed Corporation
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
University of Nebraska Medical Center
VentureQuest
For more information on the Advanced Invention2Venture program, please view their website at invention2venture.org.