The Future of Life Sciences

We have entered the second decade of the third Millenium.  The United States is reorganizing health care. The Obama administration is investing heavily in research.  And we are optimistic that we are at the end of the worst recession for 80 years.  With all these changes, what does the future hold for the Life Sciences and the commercialization of new technologies?  What technologies are going to change the development of new drugs and devices?  Are our existing funding models still relevant?  Will the Federal Government change its priorities in basic and applied research?


June 2, 2010
8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Westin Copley Place
www.mattcenter.org/malsi-day-2010/home.html


The 3rd Massachusetts Life Sciences Innovation Day is the biggest day for life sciences startups and innovation in the State of Massachusetts. Last year this house-full, high-energy, hands-on event brought together legendary speakers and experts to mingle with innovators, post-docs, professors, entrepreneurs, innovators, and venture capitalists. It is the flagship event of life sciences in Massachusetts, jointly and actively put together by all the major organizations that are involved in starting and supporting the life sciences startup ecosystem in the Commonwealth.   

The Massachusetts life sciences community is made up of many intertwined sectors - basic research, applied research, clinical practice, entrepreneurial start-ups, established major biotech companies and multinational pharmaceuticals - all of these sectors and their relationships to each other will all be redefined by the new economy of the 2010's. At this event we'll talk about how the funding environment is changing for research, the commercialization of technologies and for start-up companies. We'll also look at new discoveries that will change the world in this decade and the next.  Additional questions our speaker will address include: What does the future look like for the companies that have been forming in the last 18 months?  How will companies find and develop new products?  Which basic sciences will have the most impact on the future of health care?

An amazing line-up of speakers will be gathering at this event.  Our speakers include:

• Matthew W. Emmens, Chairman, President and CEO, Vertex Pharmaceuticals
• Leonard Zon, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
• JC Gutierrez-Ramos, Pfizer, Inc
• James O'Mara, VP of Ironwood Pharma
• Adil Najam, Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• Rox Anderson, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, MGH
• Bill Rodriguez, Daktari
• Karin Hehenberger, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

CONFERENCE FEES
$190 Academics/staff at MATTO member institutions, and Members of MassBio
$235 Non-members
$60 Students and post-docs (ID's will be required at the event)   

TO REGISTER:

Conference Registration


The Innovators Marketplace: A one-stop-shop

• One room set up with everything you need to start a company
• Find out or meet funding sources - Grants, Angels, Government Funding and VCs
• Get advice from Serial Entrepreneurs in biotech and medtech
• Meet companies who will help you engineer and design drugs and devices
• Find out what to pursue, or meet top biopharma, devices, diagnostics and tool companies and their venture arms who will buy, license, or fund what you are working on

Exhibitor in the Innovator's Marketplace -- $550

• Tabletop exhibit space in the Innovator's Marketplace
• Receive two (2) complimentary registrations for the conference
• For more information about the Innovator's Marketplace and to be approved as Exhibitor please contact Pushwaz Virk at pushwaz@gmail.com

Research Showcase - Poster Session

A limited number of poster exhibiting slots are available for labs based in Massachusetts to showcase their latest inventions and discoveries at the Massachusetts Life Sciences Innovation Day. If your lab has notable discoveries or new grant awards that you want to publicize to the Massachusetts research and business communities please download the application to exhibit a poster and submit it to jgoldberg@umassp.edu by May 7, 2010.


FOR SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

Contact:     Abi Barrow, MTTC, at abarrow@umassp.edu
Anupendra Sharma, TiE, at anupendra@yahoo.com


ABOUT MALSI
Massachusetts Life Sciences Innovation Day has been developed by the Massachusetts Life Sciences Start-up Initiative (MALSI). MALSI is a platform organization that brings together all major public and private entities in the State that are committed to building the next generation of Massachusetts companies. MALSI's mission is to ensure that Massachusetts maintains its lead as the #1 region in the world to start, nurture and grow life sciences companies.

MALSI partners include: Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center, MassBio, TiE Boston, and several major universities and research hospitals.