[bioundgrd] Social Entrepreneurship Panel: The Business of eradicating disease

[Janice Chang]

>
>Social Entrepreneurship Panel:
>The Business of Eradicating Disease
>
>May 16th, 2007
>@ 7 pm
>MIT campus, 66-110
>
>Social entrepreneurship models that integrate business strategy with social
>values are generating excitement among the new generation of technology
>entrepreneurs. Join our panel of industry pioneers in venture capital, public
>policy, intellectual property, healthcare delivery, diagnostics, and
>pharmaceuticals to discuss the potential for market driven approaches to
>alleviate global health pandemics.
>
>
>Featuring:
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>John Swen-- Executive Director of Science Policy & Public Affairs for Pfizer
>Global R&D; Co-Chair of Pfizer Research, Science Policy, and Regulatory team;
>R&D Organization Representative for the U.S. and Global Policy Coordinating
>Committees
>
>Dr. Thomas Burke -- Senior emergency physician at Mass General, Brigham and
>Women's and Children's Hospitals in Boston; Director of MGH Center for Global
>Health and Disaster Response; Senior faculty member at Harvard Medical School
>
>Dr. Doug Cole -- General Partner at Flagship Ventures; Board member 
>of Ensemble
>Discovery, Tetraphase, Concert Pharmaceuticals, AVEO Pharmaceuticals, CGI
>Pharmaceuticals, and Morphotek
>
>Lita Nelson -- Director of MIT Technology Licensing Office; Board 
>member of The
>Center for Management of Intellectual Property in Health Research; 
>Intellectual
>property Advisor for International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
>
>Dr. Alan Sager -- Professor Health Policy and Management at Boston University
>School of Public Health; Co-Director of Health Reform Program of MA; Principal
>of Access and Affordability Monitoring Project
>
>Dr. William Rodriguez -- Research Investigator at Partner AIDS 
>Research Center;
>Associate Clinical Director of Vietnam-Harvard-CDC AIDS Partnership; Member of
>Harvard Medical School;
>
>
>Moderator: Raman Sivasubramanyam, Merrill Lynch
>
>
>For more event details and panelist backgrounds, refer to:
>http://web.mit.edu/bmes/www/healthcaredebate.html
>
>Brought to you by: MIT's Biomedical Engineering Society
>
>Sponsored by: The MIT Undergraduate Association