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Thursday, November 8, 2007
Ross-Ade Pavilion

Kauffman Campus Initiative Best Practices Workshop
What Skills do our Nation’s Next Generation of Entrepreneurial Leaders Need?

9:00 a.m.         Dr. Ted Ashburn, Senior Director, Genzyme
                        Skills for Success in the World of Business Development

9:30 a.m.         Question and Answer Session

9:40 a.m.         Michael Kurek, Partner, Biotechnology Business Consultants
                        Skills for Successful Entrepreneurs

10:10 a.m.       Question and Answer Session

10:20 a.m.       Coffee Break

Discovery Lecture Series/BioCrossroads
Starting Regionally, Thinking Globally
Business Development and the Life Sciences

11:30 a.m.       Guests arrive at Buchanan Club (5th floor) for Luncheon

11:45 a.m.       Dr. Alan Rebar
                        Welcome and Opening

12:25 p.m.       Dr. William Miller, Provost Emeritus, Stanford University
                        Moderator

12:35 p.m.       Keynote
                        Mr. G. Steven Burrill, CEO, Burrill & Company
                        Global Markets for the Life Sciences

1:00 p.m.         Question and Answer Session

1:30 p.m.         Break

2:00 p.m.         Dr. Alan Rebar
                        Introduces President France Córdova

2:05 p.m.         President France Córdova
                        Technology Commercialization and Purdue University

Panel Session
How Corporations View the World Markets for Life Sciences Intellectual Property

2:15 p.m.         Mr. David Johnson, President & CEO, Biocrossroads
                        Developing Corporate IP
                        Dr. Ted Ashburn, Senior Director, Genzyme
                        The Development and Commercialization of New Technologies
                        Dr. Roger Newton,  Co-discoverer of Lipitor, Co-Founder, Esperion Therapeutics,
                        a Division of Pfizer Global Research & Development

                        Esperion: A Biotech Success in the Midwest

3:00 p.m.         Question and Answer Session

3:30 p.m.         Event Concludes

Optional Discovery Park Tours at 4:00 p.m.

6:30 p.m.         Private dinner with President France A. Córdova
                        Mann Hall Atrium
                        By Invitation Only

 



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