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Innovation - from research to business in health sciences
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3681-24-00-00 
Enrollment deadline: 18/10/2024
Date and time18.11.2024, at: 09:00 - 22.11.2024, at: 17:00
Regular seats24
Course fee8,640.00 kr.
LecturersBo Bentzen
ECTS credits4.00
Contact personTrine Nygaard Jørgensen    E-mail address: trine.nygaard.joergensen@sund.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserPhD administration     E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content

This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD Students from NorDoc member faculties. All other participants must pay the course fee.

Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at a Danish university, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. This also applies to PhD students from NorDoc member faculties. After the enrollment deadline, available seats will be allocated to applicants on the waiting list.

Through a series of inspirational and thematic talks combined with team exercises, the PhD course is aiming to train young scientists in bringing research ideas to the market. Using scientific papers that have been the foundation of real spinouts, the teams will have to create an investor’s pitch to present and defend in front of a panel of real investors their research commercialization plan using all the tools and knowledge they have gained during the course. Focus on therapeutics and health tech.


Learning objectives

A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:

1. Understand and interpret research with an innovative/commercial potential
2. Demonstrate and define how to go from "idea to market”
3. Understand basic concepts of making a business plan
4. Communicate and pitch your project to investors or collaborators
5. Gain an increased perspective of opportunities and possibilities aside from the "regular" academic


Content

Team creation, Proof-of-Concept experiments, Market analysis, Business plan, Business/Go-to-market Strategy, Regulatory Affairs, Investments and funding, company pitching


Participants

The course is for PhD students at all levels with a natural interest and curiosity in innovation and research commercialization within the field of health and medical sciences, with a focus on therapeutics and medtech. The course does not require prior experience with innovation or research commercialization. Students with prior experience can, however, also benefit greatly from the course.


Relevance to graduate programmes

The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH:

All graduate programmes


Language

English


Form

Lectures, group work, presentations and discussions


Course director

Bo Hjorth Bentzen, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, bobe@sund.ku.dk


Teachers

To be confirmed:
Trine Winterø, Vice Dean, Innovation and External Relations
Hans Wandal, Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Ulrik Krogh Andersen, CEO at Mequ
Mette Trauelsen, CEO at SOLID Therapeutics
Kamilla Rolsted, Business Unit Manager at Open Entrepreneurship
Tony Cheng-Fu Chang, Business Developer at BII
Ali Salanti, Professor, Centre for Medical Parasitology
Henriette Schultz Kirkegaard, Co-funder 3DIntegrated
Janine Terra Erler, Professor, BRIC
Peter J Holst, Guest Researcher, Department of Biomedical Sciences
Niels Lysholm Engelhard, Technology Transfer Office
Ann Christine Korsgaard, Regulatory expert at Director Ozack
Jørgen Søberg Petersen, Partner at Novo Holdings
Sanne Brun Jensen, Business Developer at BII
Jacob Moresco, Investment Director at Sunstone Life Science Venture
Trine Nygaard Jørgensen, Business Unit Manager at Open Entrepreneurship
Bo Hjorth Bentzen, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences


Dates

18 – 22 November 2024


Course location

Faculty Lounge, Mærsk Tower 7.15.107A, Panum, Copenhagen University


Registration

Please register before 18 October 2024


Expected frequency

The course is recurrent every year in November

Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment.

Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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