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The event is designed to promote inclusion of underrepresented minorities in biotechnology.

Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Several ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï faculty members participated in the first-ever California State University I-Corps Entrepreneurship Workshop.
This week, ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï and the 2017 Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) International Convention hosted the first-ever in San Diego. The event is designed to give graduate students and assistant professors from underrepresented groups the opportunity to to developing their own companies that focus on solutions to antibiotic resistance.

Over the past three days, about two dozen participants worked with faculty and biotechnology professionals to learn about networking, biotech commercialization and how to translate basic research into entrepreneurial opportunities. The CSU I-Corps teaching team includes CSU Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology (CSUPERB) program officer Susan Baxter, ºÚÁϳԹÏ's Lavin Entrepreneurship Center Executive Director Alex DeNoble, ºÚÁϳԹÏ's Zahn Innovation Platform Launchpad Executive Director Cathy Pucher, ºÚÁϳԹÏ's Technology Transfer Office Director Tommy Martindale, and ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï College of Sciences Dean Stanley Maloy.
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