Cambridge
MA
USA
Entrepreneur’s Network – Cambridge Meeting
There are lots of ways to fund and launch a life sciences start-up. The work is always interesting, often with the potential to change the lives of patients suffering from an underserved medical condition. Yes, there are lots of ways to get the job done, but none of them are easy.
ENET has assembled a distinguished panel of experienced entrepreneurs who have accepted the life sciences start-up challenge, each having taken a very different path. Join us to hear their stories and engage them in discussion.
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Moderator: Dr. Roger Frechette is the Co-Founder and Principal of New England PharmAssociates, a consultancy offering on-demand executive and business advisory services to life sciences enterprises. He is also the US East Coast Ambassador for Medicon Valley Alliance, a life sciences cluster organization based in Copenhagen. Previously, he was a Co-Founder of Frontiera Therapeutics, a startup developing therapeutics for vascular leaks. He is a volunteer adviser and mentor with several Boston area biotech incubators and startup mentoring programs. Previously, Dr. Frechette was Co-Founder of MaxThera, an antibacterial drug discovery company. MaxThera was sold in 2010 to Biota Holdings Limited, a Melbourne Australia anti-infectives company. Prior to starting MaxThera, Dr. Frechette was a drug discovery and life-sciences consultant following his role as Project Director at Paratek Pharmaceuticals (Boston). At Paratek he led the team that discovered PTK0796 (currently in Phase III clinical trials) with strategic partner Glaxo-Wellcome, and the pre-clinical development program that was carried out with a multinational team of consultants and contractors. Previously, he was Associate Director of Chemistry at RiboGene (Hayward, CA), where he built the chemistry department and managed two drug discovery programs in collaboration with strategic partner Dainippon Pharmaceuticals. He began his career as a medicinal chemist at the R.W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute (J&J, Raritan, NJ). Dr. Frechette was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Yale University, earned his PhD in Organic Chemistry from Wesleyan University and his BA in Chemistry from College of the Holy Cross.
Organizer: Andrew Snyder, Ph.D. is a Research Scientist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. In his current role, he focuses on finding novel therapeutics for cardiovascular disease in collaboration with Bayer Healthcare. Prior to working at the Broad, Andy worked at Targanox, Inc, a biotech focused on discovering targeted therapeutics to offset the effects of reactive oxygen species. As part of the initial startup team, Andy was responsible for setting up the biology laboratory, co-developing the proteomics platform and conducting screening assays to identifying targets and inhibitors. Andy completed his post-doctoral training in cancer biology at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, PA and was a NRSA NIH/NCI individual award recipient. Andy holds a Ph.D. (Molecular and Cell Biology) and a M.S. degree (Environmental Molecular Biology) from the University of Maryland at Baltimore and a B.S. in microbiology from the University of Maryland at College Park. Andy began volunteering with ENET in 2014.
Where: Microsoft Technology Center, One Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA. 02142 Phone: (781) 487-6400 The One Cambridge Center GENERAL ENTRANCE is on 255 Main Street, Cambridge, across from the Kendall Square Post Office. Exit Kendall Square T Station to Main Street. Once you exit the station, head down the Marriott side of Main Street going in the direction of Boston/the Longfellow Bridge. The One Cambridge Center entrance is located next to the Boston Properties entrance. Enter through the glass revolving door and proceed to the Microsoft facilities on the second floor. Note: There is also a direct Microsoft entrance across from the rotary at the confluence of Main Street and Broadway. See also: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/mtc/locations/boston_directions.aspx
Note: There is also a direct Microsoft entrance across from the rotary at the confluence of Main Street and Broadway.
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: Travel Mass RT 2 East from RT 128 Exit 29A directly to the Alewife MBTA garage. Park at the Alewife Garage ($7.00) on the MBTA subway Red Line. Take the inbound train (the only one available there) for 15 minutes to Kendall / MIT. The entrance to the Microsoft Technology Center is directly across the street from the station.
Admission: General admission is $10. Free to ENET members. Free Pizza and soft drinks will be served. Advanced registration is requested