Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

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

Activity no.: 3681-25-00-00	There are 20 available seats
	Enrollment deadline: 17/10/2025

Date and time	17.11.2025, at: 09:00 - 21.11.2025, at: 17:00
Regular seats	24
Course fee	9,600.00 kr.
Lecturers	Bo Bentzen
ECTS credits	4.00

Contact person	Bo Bentzen E-mail address: bobe@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD 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. 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. Focus on therapeutics and medtech. 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 Ulrik Krogh Andersen, CEO at Mequ Mette Trauelsen, CEO at SOLID Therapeutics Kamilla Rolsted, COO & Head of Development at Pepexia therapeutics Petar V. Todorov, Associate at BioInnovation Institute Ali Salanti, Professor, Centre for Medical Parasitology Henriette Schultz Kirkegaard, Co-funder 3DIntegrated Janine Terra Erler, Professor, BRIC Kristian Strømgaard, Professor, Center for Biopharmaceuticals Niels Lysholm Engelhard, Innovation Partner at Lighthouse Ann Christine Korsgaard, Regulatory expert at Director Ozack Jørgen Søberg Petersen, Partner at Novo Holdings Christoffer Nielsen, Co-founder Adcendo Stephanie Munk, Investment Director at Sunstone Life Sciences Ventures Umar Adegoke, Associate at BioInnovation Institute Bo Hjorth Bentzen, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences Dates November 17 - November 21, 2025 - 9-17 all days Course location Faculty Lounge, Mærsk Tower 7.15.107A, Panum, Copenhagen University Registration Please register before October 17th 2025 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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