Bench2Market Talks | Spend to De-Risk: Putting Your First Dollars Where Investors Look

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Online Location: https://biolocity.gatech.edu/calendar_event/b2m-talks-topic-tbd-with-justin-burns-from-georgia-research-alliance/

University Event Topic: Business,Career Development,Faculty,Health ,Innovation & Entrepreneurship,Medicine,Research,Science,Other

Sc hool: School of Medicine

Department / Organization: Biomedical Engineering,School of Medicine

Meeting Organizer/Sponsor: Biolocity

Speaker/Presenter:

Justin Burns, PhD, is Chief In novation Officer and Vice President of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the

Georgia Research Alliance, where he leads a multi-million-dollar portfolio of commercialization grants and loans to startups and projects at Georgia's research universities. He has sat on most sides of the commercialization table. He started at the bench as a National Research Council Fellow at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and a postdoc at Emory, then spent five years in Emory's Office of Technology Transfer, managing more than 300 technologies and negotiating nearly two dozen licenses. At Morningside, a global life science investment firm, he led diligence, closed financings and served as a directo r or board observer for eight startups. He is a board member of the Georgia Intellectual Property Alliance and holds a PhD in molecular biology and biochemistry from Georgia Tech.

Event Open To: All (Public),All Students,Alumni,Emory College Students,Emory Co mmunity,Evening MBA,Executive MBA,Faculty,First-Year Students,Full- time MBA,Graduate Students,International Students,Oxford College Stud ents,Oxford Continuee Students,PhD,PhD Students Advanced to Candidacy ,PostDocs,School of Business Students,School of Medicine Students,Sc hool of Nursing Students,School of Public Health Students,Seniors,Sop homores,Staff,Undergraduate BBA

Cost: Free

Registration / R.S.V. P. link: https://biolocity.gatech.edu/calendar_event/b2m-talks-topic-tbd-with-justin-burns-from-georgia-research-alliance/

Contact Name: Cindy Borges

Contact Phone: 4044474868

Contact Email: cindy.lynn.borges@emory.edu

Bench2Market Talks presents:

Spend to De-Risk: Putting Your First Dollars Where Investors Look