Formal registration for the symposium is now closed, but we welcome walk-ins the day of the event. Please join us on 12/18 by checking in outside Uris Auditorium! If you have any questions, please email enterpriseinnovation@med.cornell.edu. Thank you and look forward to seeing you.

Eighth Annual Dean’s Symposium on Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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Griffis Faculty Club

12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Enterprise Innovation In-Person Office Hours and Registration

(1:1 Meetings with Enterprise Innovation Business Development and Licensing Experts. Register ahead. Walk-ins are welcome.)

Uris Auditorium

2:15 p.m. Welcome

2:20 p.m. - 3:05 p.m. Faculty Panel: “Becoming an Inventor and the Process of Translating Concept into Reality in Women’s Health Innovation”

3:05 p.m. - 3:25 p.m. Break

3:25 p.m. - 3:40 p.m. Opening Remarks from Krystyn J. Van Vliet, Ph.D., Vice President for Research and Innovation, Cornell University: “Moving Innovation to Impact as One Cornell”

3:40 p.m. - 4:25 p.m. Introduction and Fireside Chat Hosted by Robert A. Harrington, M.D., Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean, Weill Cornell Medicine: “From Academic Scientist to Leading Entrepreneur” with Rachel Haurwitz, Ph.D., President and CEO of Caribou Biosciences

4:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. Featured Faculty Presentation: “ArmaBio: Developing Precision Therapeutics for Prostate Cancer” by Paraskevi Giannakakou, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmacology in Medicine

4:50 p.m. - 5:20 p.m. Faculty Panel: “Beyond Therapeutics: Turning Care Delivery Workflows and Pain Points into Innovation”

5:25 p.m. - 5:35 p.m. Recognition of the FY2024 Daedalus Fund for Innovation and Selma and Lawrence Ruben Science to Industry Bridge Fund Recipients

5:35 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. Closing Remarks from Krystyn J. Van Vliet, Ph.D., Vice President for Research and Innovation, Cornell University

5:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Networking Reception in Griffis Faculty Club

Eighth Annual Dean's Symposium on Innovation and Entrepreneurship