HST 590 Spring 2008: What Industry Wished Academia Knew & Did

Course Directors: Jeff Behrens and Michael Cima

Location: E25-117 unless otherwise noted; Thursdays 5-6 PM

Course Theme

Dinners

Attendance & missed sessions

Feb 7: Intro and themes for this semester – Jeff and Michael (dinner)

• Michael Cima’s story
• Jeff's presentation
• What Cima wished he had known

Feb 14: Stephen Friend, MD/PHd, Senior Vice President, Merck and former CEO, Rosetta (dinner)

• How businesses work (and sometimes don’t…)
• Wired article on Stephen
• Friend's presentation

Feb 21: Jim Matheson, Partner, Flagship Ventures

• (dinner?)
• The interesting things are often at intersections
• Jim's article in Mass High Tech
• Matheson's PPT

Feb 28: Joe Smith HST MD '87, PhD '86 , Vice President - Microelectronic Technologies, Cordis Corporation, (a Johnson & Johnson company) (JSB OUT, Julie Greenberg to host)

Mar 6: Lita Nelson, Director, MIT Technology Licensing Office

• (JSB OUT) (dinner)
• 10 things the TLO wished scientists knew/did & The MIT Entrepreneurial ecosystem (Martha Gray to host)

Mar 13: Dinner seminar/no class

Mar 20: Marc Rubenstein, Partner, Ropes and Gray (Life Sciences and IP practice groups) (dinner)

• Common mistakes and misperceptions when representing entrepreneurial scientists

Mar 27 – MIT/Harvard GSAS spring break/no class

Apr 3 – Stan Lapidus, Founder and CEO, Helicos Biosciences

• (also founder, EXACT and Cytyc)
• Finding and teaming up with inventive/entrepreneurial scientists

Apr 17 – David Cohen – The State of HST

Apr 24 – Michael Corbley, PhD and Eric Whalley, PhD Biogen Idec Scientists/Evaluators for venture investments

May 1 – tbd based on class feedback from 1st half of semester.** Several speakers are lined up depending on specific interests/responses to other presenters.

May 8 – dinner seminar – no class

May 15 - last day of classes at MIT – no class

MIT Library Resources for this course