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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.

 

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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 .