Investing in Early-Stage Life Science and Healthcare

This will be an interactive conversation between Dr. Eadie and Christine Winoto, Director and Founder of the UCSF Rosenman Institute. When you register, please let us know what questions you would most like answered.

Investing in Digital Innovation at Novartis

This will be an interactive conversation between Neil and Christine Winoto, Director and Founder of the UCSF Rosenman Institute. When you register, please let us know what questions you would most like answered.

When and How to Talk to Investors and Partners About Your IP

Investors and strategic partners want to understand your intellectual property so they can assess your chances of advancing your technology in the market. How well-developed does your IP position need to be before you can open discussions? Exactly how much should you reveal? And what do you do when your IP is not patentable? Get the answers Tuesday, September 24 from Adam Schoen, Partner at the law firm Brown Rudnick.

The Full Picture: Why FDA Approval Depends on More Than Your Clinical Trial

Meeting endpoints in a successful clinical trial ensures that the FDA will approve a medical device, right? As it turns out, there’s more to the picture. Tony Fields was VP of R&D at Emphasys and COO at Claret Medical, and in his career he saw FDA deny approval for an Emphasys device that met all primary and secondary endpoints in a trial–but, conversely, approve a Claret device that failed to meet its endpoints. How can this be? What other factors might matter to FDA? Join us Thursday, September 12 to find out.

Understanding IP Due Diligence from the Investor’s Point of View

Early-stage companies will have to obtain funding or go through an exit process at some point in time. Since intellectual property (IP) often represents the bulk of an early stage company’s assets, investors will typically conduct due diligence on the IP during their evaluation process. Key areas that are evaluated include ownership of the IP, strength of the company’s IP, and freedom-to-operate. Join us May 30 to get a primer on how to prepare for IP due diligence from Douglas Portnow and Piers Blewett from the IP law firm Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner.

Finding Unmet Needs in Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine

This is the first in a series of events in which we bring clinicians and medical device engineers to discover unmet needs in a specialized area of medicine. In this event physicians will describe how they treat conditions, some of the challenges they face in delivering quality medical care, and possible solutions; engineers will discuss what is feasible and suggest alternative approaches. Join us for an intensely interactive session focused on pulmonary and critical care medicine.

Critical Success Factors for Regulatory Strategy

Set yourself up for success in your startup’s approach to effectively navigate the regulatory pathway to market and maximize your interactions with FDA. Join this seminar to hear from Nada Hanafi, Chief Strategy Officer of Experien Group, headquartered in San Jose, CA. This discussion will focus on the critical success factors that go into a comprehensive regulatory strategy and the benefits of FDA’s Q-Submission process for state-of-the-art medical devices and innovative technologies.

Empowered Health Through Biomaterials Innovation: Tissue-Integrating Sensors for Mobile Health Monitoring at Profusa

Natalie Wisniewski, PhD, is co-founder and CTO of Profusa, which develops and markets real-time biosensors that provide unprecedented insights into our overall health status. Together, she and her co-founders, executive team, collaborators and advisors built the company road map, enlisted top talent, secured funding and turned innovative concepts into products. Join us to hear the lessons she has learned as a health tech inventor and entrepreneur.

Selling Beyond the OR: the Hospital Stakeholder

You’ve developed a compelling value proposition for your physician stakeholders, but what about the hospital who will have to pay for your product? Well before commercializing, entrepreneurs need to consider both clinical and economic positioning for the hospital. How will hospital administration and value analysis committee (VAC) assess your technology and what will it take to get it approved? Join us on February 26 to learn more about selling to the hospital stakeholder with Amie Borgstrom, President of Borgstrom Consulting Group and a former Global Vice President of Marketing for Zimmer Biomet and for Baxano Inc, a venture backed medtech start-up.

How to Maximize the Value of Your Business, Whether You are Building to Scale, Sell, or Merge

To maximize value for stakeholders–and themselves–founders need to make the right decisions concerning financial and legal issues such as capital structure, transactions, scaling, possible exits and personal financial planning. The choices they make today, for example, may have unanticipated consequences with respect to capital raises, taxable income, and income taxes. Join us to hear from this panel of financial and legal experts as they discuss what founders should do to achieve the best possible outcome.