Innovation & Investment: The Future of Life Sciences

Last week we had some old friends and some new friends come together here at MGH to discuss the future of Life Sciences and innovative opportunities for business development and venture capital investment.  You'll know Juan Enriquez from his ground breaking book As The Future Catches You. Luis Barros comes to us from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, where they focus on creating jobs in the Commonwealth by developing Boston as the center for biotechnology around the world. David Constantine is a new CIMIT face coming from the initiative, MassChallenge, a Collaboration and Competition model just getting started. Finally, John Abele, served as the continual driving force behind a need for better collaboration in medicine.

Moderator: Richard Anders, Managing Director, Rubin/Anders Scientific, Inc.

Innovation has charged the world’s biotech and medical device industries, academic medical centers, universities and global health organizations. In the context of the current United States debate over HealthCare Reform, Enriquez and Barros will discuss the impact and outlook for life science innovation.

 

Why Life Sciences will be the Dominant Language and Economic Driver of this Century  

Juan Enriquez, Managing Director, Excel Medical Ventures and Chairman and CEO, Biotechonomy LLC
 
As we live through an almost unprecedented economic crisis, we are also living through an extraordinary scientific age. On the one hand, we are witnessing unprecedented wealth destruction. On the other hand there are, especially in Boston, extraordinary opportunities to create the next great industries and power the global economy.

The life science revolution is already having extraordinary political, ethical, economic, and financial impacts. You can begin to see this in both the pattern of mergers and acquisitions as well as new investments.

Life science applications are transforming how pharma, biotech, food, feed, fiber, insurance, chemical, insurance, and energy companies do business.

 

Investing in Innovation 

Luis Barros, Senior Vice President, Investments & Industry Development, Massachusetts Life Sciences Center
 
Luis Barros is the Vice President for Investments and Industry Development for the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, the quasi-public agency charged with implementing the state's ten-year, $1 billion Life Sciences Initiative. His presentation will discuss the Center's investment strategy, the investments made thus far, and the return on investment to date.

 

Panel: Where to Invest in Innovation 

John Abele, Founding Chairman (retired) and Director, Boston Scientific Corporation
 

David Constantine, Founder and Chief Operating Officer, MassChallenge

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