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SUMMARY:How does the pharma/biotech industry work? What are my career poss
 ibilities as a life scientist? 
DTSTART:20140506T171500
DTEND:20140506T181500
DTSTAMP:20260509T170134Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Jeff Behrens\, Brian Hashemi and Prof. Christopher Tucci\nDid
  you ever wonder which opportunities you have in pharma/biotech industry a
 s a life sciences PhD or postdoc?\nJeff Behrens will give an overview of:
  \n- the overall organization of biotech/pharma industry - who is doing w
 hat\, where?\n- value chain and key functions (with a focus on development
  vs. commercialization)\n- some specific examples of scientific input into
  drug development\n- building a career outside academia - general thoughts
  and advice\nJeff Behrens\, MS\, MBA is an entrepreneur. He is president a
 nd CEO of Sialix\, a company that develops antibody-based cancer therapeut
 ics (http://sialix.com/). He is based in Boston\, USA and gives lectures a
 bout biomedical engineering at MIT.\nBrian Hashemi will talk about his exp
 erience in investements in medtech.\nBrian Hashemi has extensive backgroun
 d in healthcare technology development and commercialization and has been 
 an Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine and was a researcher 
 at NASA.\nThis event is organized together with the Management of Technolo
 gy (MoT) of EPFL.\nJeff Behrens\, Brian Hashemi and Prof. Christopher Tuc
 ci (MoT) will both be very happy to answer all your questions.\nAs usual\,
  the talks will be followed by an apéro in the SV Hall at 6:15 PM\, stay 
 for a beer!\nFor logistics purposes\, please REGISTER here: http://doodle
 .com/ubv2f2ni4xit8x6t
LOCATION:SV 1717A
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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