[bioundgrd] FW: Healthcare Ventures/Spring 2017

[Joshua Stone]

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From: ML Ujwal <mlujwal at mit.edu<mailto:mlujwal at mit.edu>>
Subject: RE: Healthcare Ventures/Spring 2017
Date: January 7, 2017 at 7:28:24 PM EST




Healthcare Ventures – HST.978 /15.367
Taste the process + challenges of launching transformational health ventures

Spring 2017 marks the 6th year of MIT Healthcare Ventures, an action learning lab which has helped launch companies that have raised over $150M in funding. The class combines key people and process to identify, validate and launch hypergrowth healthcare ventures:

1)    Prominent speakers healthcare entrepreneurs and venture capital investors
2)    Expert mentors from key domains across digital medicine, pharma, med devices, regulatory, software and design thinking
3)    Classmates from engineering, medicine, & MBAs forming teams around large opportunities

What: 15.367 / HST.978 Healthcare Ventures

When: Thursdays, 5:30-8:30 PM;  Dinner Provided

Where: MIT Sloan E62-233 100 Main Street Cambridge, MA

Who: Engineers, Physicians, Computer Scientists, MBAs and exceptional undergrads who are committed to founding high-impact healthcare ventures. Course will be limited to around 45 people, approved by the instructors to create the right mix of people in the course.

Faculty Co-Directors:
-       Zen Chu, Sloan Senior Lecturer
-       Ayesha Khalid, Harvard Medical School and SF14 Alum
-       Martha Gray PhD, J.W. Kieckhefer Professor of Health Sciences and Technology

How: MBAs can register through Sloan.
-       Others apply here: http://bit.ly/2gjWAnS
-       Feel free to reach out to the class TA, ML Ujwal (mlujwal at mit.edu<mailto:mlujwal at mit.edu>) with questions

Why do it: The goal of Healthcare Ventures is to create diverse teams to identify, validate, and model the creation of early stage transformative healthcare businesses.  Course content and process have taken principles from MIT Hacking Medicine, Design Thinking, Agile Sprints, Business Model Canvas and tailored them to the complexities and tectonic shifts of healthcare, both in the US and globally.  Teams will witness the development, challenges and progress of the other teams attacking different areas of healthcare in the course at regular intervals. By the end of the course, students will have experienced best practices in identifying and validating health venture opportunities, amid the challenges of navigating the healthcare/disease mapping, team dynamics, and venture capital pitching process.


ML UJWAL PhD
Fellow,
System Design and Management
School of Science, Engineering and Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Cambridge, MA 02139
E-mail: mlujwal at mit.edu<mailto:mlujwal at mit.edu>
Phone: 617-835-9545

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