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BioNewslink
 The Newsletter of BioStrategy Partners

 		January 2010
In This Issue
 
 
 
Thank You to Our Sponsors:

Fox Chase Cancer Center

Lankenau

Temple

Citizens bank

Fox Rothchild

Cressa

salus


Amper


Ballard Spahr

Saul Ewing


Travelers
From the Executive Director
Karen J. Hanson, Ph.D.
 

Happy New Year!  As we continue to hope for a prosperous 2010 for one and all, BioStrategy Partners can look with great pride at the description of our work in the recent "Bio Building" suite of articles by John George in the January 8 Philadelphia Business Journal. 

Our commitment to independent inventors, scientific founders, first-time entrepreneurs, enterprising principal investigators, and technology transfer officers was clearly profiled in the descriptions of Immunome, Technical Vision, and Professor Ira Ayene's research at the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research. 

BioSP is doing its part to implement the Milken Report's recommendation that the region "...leverage its established assets to support the growth of small life sciences firms that continue to trigger innovation... This would ensure the continuous birth of small, innovative life sciences ventures."

We invite your support for our work as a capacity-building organization at the very beginning of the regional value chain.

And we are very pleased to welcome Ballard Spahr LLP as a Bronze Level Sponsor of BioStrategy Partners.  Patrick J. Kelly, Ph.D., a Registered Patent Attorney in the firm's Philadelphia office, focuses his practice on intellectual property matters related to the life sciences.
News from Our Community
 

Cellvizio is currently recruiting for two positions: Applications Specialists and Director of Reimbursement. Contact them directly for more information.

JDP Therapeutics announces new CEO - Joshua M. Tarnoff. Click here for details.

Pharmatrope Files Key Patent for Computation of Ligand-Protein Binding. Click here for more details.

David Martin has been elected Chairman-Elect of the Drug and Alcohol Industry Testing Association. His company, Drug Detection Solutions, LLC is a KIZ Company. Click here for a link to the article.

Ashton Tweed was mentioned in the January 29th Philadelphia Business Journal. Click here for a link to the article.

Upcoming Programs
 
MARK YOUR CALENDARS:

Practical Knowledge Series
Citizens Gateway Center
Plymouth Meeting, PA

March 5, 2010
Forces of Light vs. Forces of Dark: A Mock Negotiation of an Early Stage Financing
Moderator:
Jeffrey H. Nicholas, Esq.
Chair, Technology and Venture Finance
and Securities Practice Groups
Fox Rothschild LLP

More details will be available shortly.

Future Practical Knowledge Series Events are scheduled for:

April 16, 2010
May 21, 2010
 

Founded in 2004, BioStrategy Partners is a capacity-building organization providing technology and business development services to idea-stage projects and companies in the Greater Philadelphia region. BioSP specializes in offering business guidance and support to first-time entrepreneurs, scientific founders, technology transfer officers and principal investigators.  For more information, please visit our web site, http://www.biostrategypartners.org.