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Take the change to support entrepreneurs, meet early-stage startups, or get inspired by the judges’ feedback. Participants will have five minutes to pitch and two minutes to answer questions from the judges. This year’s competition will host startups from many different industries from food tech to health tech to green tech. The prize is a heavily subsidized booth at StartupGrind Global 2020.

Judges
E. Patrice Perkins, chapter director, Startup Grind Albany
Stephen C. Snyder, executive-in-residence, Princeton University
Karin Wolok, community curator and entrepreneur
Sheri Kurdakul, founder and CEO, VictimsVoice

Join us to watch the pitch competition. The event is free, but seating is limited. Application submissions are no longer being accepted. 

Though death and taxes are certainties of life, they can lead to contention when families fail to properly plan for them.

Join Fox Rothschild for a complimentary breakfast program where a trio of firm attorneys will outline estate planning considerations that can help prevent litigation.

Topics
• Overview of commonly litigated estate issues
• Family situations that often give rise to litigation
• Establishing, implementing and communicating an estate plan

New Jersey Founders & Funders enables early-stage businesses to meet with potential investors in 10-minute, one-on-one “speed dating” sessions to discuss strategy, business models, and funding opportunities. Each participating entrepreneur meets an average of six investors in curated one-on-one meetings during the event. Follow-up responses from attendees at the November 2018 New Jersey Founders & Funders event indicated that over 90 percent of those participants secured additional meetings with at least one investor. Entrepreneurs interested in participating in New Jersey Founders & Funders can apply online. Participation is a on a first-come-first-served basis.

Sponsored by the NJEDA Technology and Life Sciences team.

Patents are probably the most valuable assets for early stage biotechnology/life science companies. Oftentimes, patents are the only assets of such companies. 

Join Fox Rothschild for breakfast and a complimentary program presented by two of their patent attorneys, who will detail the essentials of patenting biologics. The presentation will cover the wide range of legal requirements, including a discussion of actual cases and review of best practices. 

Topics
• Patent essentials that a company needs to know
• Legal requirements for obtaining a patent on biologics, using real-world cases as examples
• Common IP-related mistakes made by early stage companies

Speakers
Gerard P. Norton, PhD, Partner, Intellectual Property
Jianming Jimmy Hao, PhD, Partner, Intellectual Property

Agenda
Registration & Breakfast: 8:30–9:00 a.m.
Presentation & Q&A: 9:00–10:30 a.m.

Registration Deadline
November 1

Questions? Contact 1.877.778.7369 or events@foxrothschild.com.

A significant milestone in an emerging company’s development timeline is the receipt and negotiation of a term sheet for an initial round of funding.

Join Fox Rothschild for breakfast and a complimentary program presented by two of their corporate attorneys, who will detail the basics on core terms and conditions of a transaction structure, as well as related economics and corporate governance provisions.

Topics
• Elements of a typical Series A term sheet
• Possible negational areas
• Alternative approaches for companies and investors 

Speakers
Vincent A. Vietti, Fox Rothschild LLP 
Michael P. Weiner, Fox Rothschild LLP 

Agenda

Registration & Breakfast: 8:30–9:00 a.m.
Presentation & Q&A: 9:00–10:30 a.m. 

Registration Deadline
October 27 

Questions? Contact 1.877.778.7369 or events@foxrothschild.com. 

If you are a business owner or inventor, you need to protect your intellectual property (IP). Attend this free one-day United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) event and learn from government experts, IP attorneys, and local businesspeople about how U.S. rights holders can protect their IP in China. Space is limited; learn more and register early. 

Don’t miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights about:

• What you need to know about protecting your patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets in China, particularly for small- and medium-sized businesses
• Where is China going with IP?
• Enforcing IP rights in the United States
• U.S. government resources for U.S. companies 
• IP in China: the New Jersey experience

Continuing legal education (CLE) accreditation pending approval by the New Jersey State Bar Association. 

This event is one of a series of China IP Road Shows the USPTO is conducting across the country. It has been organized in cooperation with the U.S. Commercial Service Central/Southern New Jersey, Princeton University Corporate Engagement and Foundation Relations, and the Mid-Atlantic District Export Council.    

Agenda
A detailed agenda will be posted here at least one week prior to the event. 

Additional Information
The registration page provides additional information and directions. For non-press inquiries, contact nadine.herbert@uspto.gov at the USPTO’s Office of Policy and International Affairs.

Deer Isle Group CEO and President, Dianna Raedle, will host a free workshop where she will present best practices for raising capital from venture capital funds and other institutions. She will walk through some concrete examples of how companies should think about positioning themselves. This will be an interactive session where participants will be encouraged to share their own entrepreneurial experiences in order to provide real examples of the concepts.

Deer Isle Group, founded in 2007 and raised over $5 billion in capital since founding, is an innovative investment bank that focuses on helping Venture Capital companies raise capital. The Deer Isle Group uses a proprietary technology solution that enables companies to turbo-charge their own capital raise by accessing a curated relevant set of institutional investors that invest in seed, early stage, and Series A investments from a universe of over 10,000. In addition, Deer Isle provides investment banking and capital markets advisory.

Schedule 
Networking: 5:30 p.m.
Workshop: 6:00 p.m.

Hosted by Princeton Entrepreneurship Council. 

TechLaunch BullPen is designed for seasoned, early-stage tech entrepreneurs to present their budding enterprises to a panel of investors, members of the tech ecosystem and business community. The audience has a chance to hear, question, network, and interact with investors, presenters, and panelists alike.  

Valuable in-kind services are also awarded to the presenting company who the investor panel feels is the most fundable moving forward. The investor panel award is worth $15,000 in professional in-kind services from the sponsors of BullPen, including Withum, Gibbons Law, Gearhart Law, and Casabona Ventures.

• Network with other entrepreneurs & investors
• Hear live feedback to presenting startups
• Witnessing a mentored and vetted investor pitch
• Participating in the interaction between startups & investors

Take your STEM career to the next level and experience the power of helping women.

Join Fox Rothschild LLP and Princeton Innovation Center BioLabs for a day of inspiration, education and networking. Attendees will develop new connections and leave with valuable takeaways, including best practices, tools and strategies for career advancement.

Topics include:
• Populating the Pipeline: Challenges & Solutions for Women in STEM
• Together We Rise: Achieving Collective Success
• At the Pinnacle of Success: Tales from STEM Innovators

View the full agenda. There is no charge to attend the event.

Online registration is now closed. To register, email events@foxrothschild.com. 

Questions? Contact 1.877.778.7369 or events@foxrothschild.com.

Developed with J.P. Morgan and Johnson & Johnson Innovation, BioNJ’s Ninth Annual BioPartnering Conference will bring together more than 400 regional biopharmaceutical executives, investors, academic collaborators and business development professionals from the Northeast to Mid-Atlantic states for a day of networking, 1:1 partnering meetings, company presentations, exhibits and plenary sessions.

Apply today to be a company presenter and showcase your innovations to investors and business development professionals looking for new collaborations and partnerships. Limited slots available. There is no fee to apply or present. Deadline: March 27

Register by March 27 for the Early Bird Rate of $275 for BioNJ Members and $325 for Future Members. After March 27, the price will be $350 for BioNJ Members and $395 for Future Members. Contact Samantha Bamberger at 609.890.3185 or BioPartnering@BioNJ.org with questions.

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Princeton Innovation Center BioLabs is proud to be a supporting partner of the BioNJ BioPartnering Conference.

Learn from an industry veteran on how to channel innovative science into novel medicines.

Princeton Innovation Center BioLabs and global pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) invite you to attend an exclusive speaking event featuring Dr. Miguel Sanjuan.

About Dr. Miguel Sanjuan
Dr. Miguel Sanjuan is a group director in the BMS Immuno-Oncology Small Molecule Biology Department. At BMS, Dr. Sanjuan leads a team of world-class immunologists with a proven record of discovering cancer treatments. Prior to joining BMS in 2017, Dr. Sanjuan worked at Medimmune (AstraZeneca) for eight years, where he led a team of twenty innovative scientists focused on the discovery of novel molecules for the treatment of autoimmune disorders. Previously, he worked as a staff scientist at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, where he discovered a novel intracellular mechanism that linked for the first time the cellular self-digestion pathway, autophagy, with the elimination of extracellular pathogens. His cutting-edge research has collectively led to peer-reviewed publications, in journals such as Nature, Nature Immunology, Immunity, and the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, USA (PNAS).

Dr. Sanjuan received a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Seville and a doctorate in molecular biology from the Autonomous University of Madrid. He then trained as a postdoc fellow at Johnson & Johnson.

Schedule
Networking: 5:30–6 p.m.
Presentation: 6 p.m.

Join us for a lunch presentation on insurance for emerging businesses courtesy of CBIZ, Inc., one of the nation’s leading providers of professional advisory services. Startups will learn

• common exposures for startups
• potential insurance solutions
• when and why specific coverages are needed
• what Directors and Officers Liability Insurance is and its importance

RSVP to Michelle Roemer-Schoen no later than Friday, April 12. 

Dr. Young-Jack Lee, president and founder of LSK Global, South Korea’s largest local contract research organization (CRO), will present a Lunch & Learn hosted by Princeton Innovation Center BioLabs and Fox Rothschild LLP.

Dr. In-Jin Jang, director at the Clinical Trials Center of Seoul University Hospital, one of the leading clinical trial centers in the world, will join Dr. Lee for the discussion. 

Lee and Jang will discuss the state of clinical trials and drug sponsorship in east Asia and the United States, including the unique opportunities available for drug sponsors and CROs who are able to leverage the benefits of efficient management of cross-border clinical trials. They will discuss and welcome questions on the state of Korean clinical trials in both the United States and Korea, informed by Dr. Lee’s experience working at the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute, both based in Bethesda, Maryland.

The presentation will also discuss the importance of building relationships between Korea and the U.S., which in turn improves the efficiency of the regulatory approval process for clinical trials.

The Lunch & Learn is ideal for universities, pharmaceutical and medical device clients, contract research organizations, investors and venture capital groups, anyone involved in work related to clinical trials and associated research.

Pictured: Dr. Young-Jack Lee

Jim Gunton, managing partner and founder of Tech Council Ventures, an early stage venture capital investment firm, will speak on the topic of networked capital. 

He has invested in privately-held growth technology companies for more than twenty years. Before cofounding in 2001 the $80 million NJTC Venture Fund, Gunton was a partner at Edison Venture Fund and a manager at Oracle Corporation in the Silicon Valley. He served formerly as a governor of the National Association of Small Business Investment Companies. He has served on the board of numerous private and public companies including Achieve3000, Amber Road (NYSE: AMBR), CytoSorbents (NASDAQ: CTSO), InstaMed, IntegriChain, and CareGain.  

Schedule
Networking: 5:30–6 p.m.
Talk: 6:00 p.m. 

Are you a biotech entrepreneur? Have you created a startup and would like more information about accounting and tax planning? Join our specialists from EisnerAmper, LLP for one-on-one discussions about accounting and tax planning for you and your company. Some of the topics you might consider taking advantage of during these meetings are:  

• Year-end tax planning
• Research and development credits
• Using research and development credits to reduce payroll tax expenses
• Cash basis vs. accrual basis tax reporting
• QuickBooks and other accounting software assistance
• Maximizing personal retirement contributions
• Entity structuring and ownership issues

Call us at 609.423.1540 to set up your appointment today!

EisnerAmper, LLP Specialists 
Tim O’Rourke is a partner in EisnerAmper’s Private Business Services Group. With more than twenty-five years f experience, Tim consults with clients regarding corporate and individual income tax planning, accounting, financial statement preparation, financial analysis, and business and personal financial planning. 

Charles Saydek is a senior manager in EisnerAmper’s Private Business Services Group. Charles has more than fifteen years of experience in public accounting, where he has specialized in business consulting, reviews, compilations, tax services, and retirement plan audits. 

Brian Trelstad, a partner at Bridges Fund Management based in New York City, will speak on the topic of impact investing.

Trelstad has more than ten years of impact investment experience, having served until 2012 as the chief investment office of Acumen Fund, where he oversaw $55m of investments into companies that were delivering health, water, energy, and agriculture services to economic base of the pyramid in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

He was a cofounding board member of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs and was one of the principal architects of impact management software tool, Pulse, and the Impact Reporting and Investment Standards. Prior to Acumen Fund, Trelstad worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, was a lead environmental staff person at the Corporation for National and Community Service, and was involved in a range of nonprofit and for-profit start ups.

Trelstad is an Entrepreneur in Residence with the Keller Center at Princeton University.

Schedule
Networking: 6–6:30 p.m.
Talk: 6:30 p.m.

Cofounder and Executive Chairman Dr. Steve Sun grew GENEWIZ, a leading global genomics service provider, from a two-person biotech startup to an international operation employing more than 1,000 people across 12 facilities around the world. GENEWIZ was acquired in September for $450 million.

Sun will share his GENEWIZ story, followed by a Q&A.

Schedule 
5:30–6:00 p.m., Networking
6:00 p.m., Fireside Chat

This is a collaborative event by the Commercialization Center for Innovative Technologies (CCIT) and Princeton Innovation Center BioLabs. For more information on CCIT, contact Lenzie Harcum. For more information on Princeton Innovation Center BioLabs, contact Nishta Rao.

Geoff Yang, cofounder of Redpoint Ventures and founder and principal of LaneOne, will discuss trends in tech investing. 

Yang has backed companies since their founding including, Arista, Ask.com, Bluefin, Calix, Efficient Frontier, Foundry Networks, Excite, Juniper Networks, Machinima, MySpace, and TiVo. He currently serves on the boards of Redpoint portfolio companies Electric Imp, Scribd, TasteMade, and Victorious; as well as AT&T, Esquel Group, and Franklin Resources (Franklin Templeton Funds). 

Currently chair of the Princeton Entrepreneurship Council Alumni Advisory Board, Yang has served as director of the National Venture Capital Association, president of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists, and a member of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee for the United States. He has also served as a member of the Advisory Council for the Stanford Graduate School of Business, chairman of the Stanford Engineering Venture Fund, 

He holds a BSE in engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from Stanford University.

Join us for a lunch presentation on precise methods in cell counting courtesy of ChemoMetec A/S. Learn about how easy it is to count cells on the NucleoCounter NC-200 and how it can help you standardize cell counting as your company grows.

This is a residents only event. 

On Wednesday, November 28, Princeton Innovation Center BioLabs will be awarded the "Innovator of the Year" award by the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce at its 2018 Annual Business Leadership Awards Gala.

Program Includes:

• Keynote by Dr. Donald C. Lo, NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences 
• Case studies by Dr. Troy Messick, Wistar Institute, and Dr. Scott Kachlany, Rutgers University
• Dr. Bob DeVita Mount Sinai School of Medicine
• Dr. Krishnan Viswandham, vice president, BD & Global Alliances, Celgene Corporation
• Poster session
• Networking opportunities

Presented by the New Jersey Academic Drug Discovery Consortium.

Mike Wiley, vice president at New Jersey Health Foundation & Foundation Venture Capital Group, will discuss his organization’s impact investing funding model. He will also cover other impact-oriented investment models and sources of capital that entrepreneurs may want to consider to support the development and growth of their startups.

This is the first in a series on venture funding presented by Princeton Entrepreneurship Council.

New Jersey BioBreak is an invite-only group that holds regular networking events for life science executives. Their 1,200 active members share a common desire in building the New Jersey region into a thriving innovation hub. Their membership is a blend of pharmaceutical executives, entrepreneurs, academic researchers, and investors.

Attendance is free of charge for registered BioBreak members. There will be light appetizers and an open bar for each person who RSVPs prior to the event. 

A Science Panel Presented by BioLabs@CIC Philadelphia

Immunotherapy, or harnessing the body’s immune system to eliminate or slow the spread of disease, has the potential to upend conventional approaches for treating patients. Early results show improved outcomes and survival rates for people with certain types of cancers, leading to hopes that new drugs working in concert with the immune system may ultimately replace radiation and chemotherapy.

The panel will give their views on the promise of immuno-oncology, focusing on therapies and technologies now emerging from research labs.

Featured speakers include: 

• Peter Melley, director, New Ventures, University City Science Center (moderator)
• Dora Mitchell, PhD, vice president, operations, Carisma Therapeutics
• Dr. Ken Hance, senior director and head of immune biology, Immuno-Oncology and Combinations Discovery Performance Unit (IOC DPU), GlaxoSmithKline
• Matthew Cohen, principal, Osage University Partners
• Melina Blees, site director, BioLabs@CIC Philadelphia

The event is free and open to the public. Space is limited, so be sure to register now. 

BioNJ, the life sciences trade association for New Jersey, is offering a complimentary, one-year membership to resident life sciences companies in the Princeton Innovation Center BioLabs. The lunch & learn will offer an opportunity to learn about membership benefits associated with BioNJ, including cost savings programs, networking, along with access to talent and educational development programs.

This is a “Residents Only” event.

Join BioSapien for a 3D printing demonstration. Samples limited to one per company.

This is a “Residents Only” event. 

TechLaunch is shaking things up with a new, open/participatory model to replace the traditional investor pitch in which the startup is sequestered after pitching so that the panel can debate the merits of investing, behind closed doors. Instead, everything and everybody stays in the room. This way, all attendees will benefit from:

• Networking with other entrepreneurs & investors
  
• Hear live feedback to presenting startups
  
• Witnessing a mentored and vetted investor pitch
  
• Participating in the interaction between startups & investors

A presentation on Intellectual Property for emerging companies.

Muriel Liberto and Sean Grygiel from Mintz Levin will discuss all aspects of intellectual property including trademark, copyright, patents, and trade secrets and how IP can be a valuable business asset when developed early with a business focused strategy.

Program:

5:00 - 6:00pm — Check-in, Hors D'Oeuvres, Networking
6:00 - 7:00pm — Presentation and Discussion
7:00 - 7:45pm — Networking

Please register to let us know you are coming.

Princeton University and BioLabs are pleased to announce the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and Reception at Princeton Innovation Center BioLabs

We look forward to developing an inclusive technology and life science startup ecosystem in central New Jersey.

Ribbon Cutting at 1:00 pm

BioNJ’s Eighth Annual BioPartnering Conference will take place at The Palace at Somerset Park, Somerset, New Jersey on Thursday, May 3rd.

The conference, which is developed in partnership with J.P. Morgan, brings more than 300 regional biopharmaceutical executives, investors, academic collaborators and business development professionals for a day of networking, 1-1 partnering meetings, company presentations, exhibits and plenary sessions.

Are you an entrepreneur? Do you want to change the world?

An exclusive preview of our NASA Collaborative National Event Series for 52 Ambitious Princeton Area HS Students.

A unique learning experience by Fizzee Labs:

- Complete in a game that builds your Innovation IQ
- Learn how successful entrepreneurs think and activate

Grand Prize:

13 Competitors will earn a spot in the NJ statement Tournament

Keynote Begins: 1pm

Keynote Speaker: Greg Olsen is an American scientist and entrepreneur, space tourist, and Princeton University Entrepreneur in Residence.

“How to get Funded” Series

Bert Marchio – Edge Therapeutics’ Chief Accounting Officer – talks about how they used state funding programs to grow Edge Therapeutics from startup to IPO.
Kamran Hashmi – NJ EDA – talks about the different state funding programs and what might be right for your company.

BioNJ’s Annual Dinner Meeting & Innovation Celebration, which is also the group's 25th anniversary, will take place on February 1, 2018.

Panel
Edward Bukstel - CEO, Clinical Blockchain
Soraya Ghebleh - Attorney - Hogan Lovells
Evin McMullen - Product Lead, Linnia / ConsenSys
Michael Sena - Product Head, uPort

Moderator
Ramesh Babu - Practice Head - FS Analytics and Blockchain, Wipro

Please join us for a media tour of the Princeton Innovation Center Biolabs, the newest effort by Princeton University to promote innovation and to support and grow the regional entrepreneurial ecosystem. This preview will include presentations by Johannes Fruehauf, Co-Founder and CEO of Biolabs, and Paul LaMarche, Vice Provost, Space Programming and Facilities at Princeton University, and Chairman of the Princeton Innovation Center, LLC.

The Princeton Innovation Center Biolabs, operated by Biolabs (headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts) provides co-working spaces specifically designed to meet the needs of the highest-potential science startups. The Center is available to companies formed by faculty, students and alumni, as well as by members of the wider New Jersey community. Located at Princeton Forrestal Center, the 31,000-square foot incubator offers a variety of shared space such as wet labs for chemical, biological and pharmaceutical development and dry lab space for engineering development, as well as shared office and desk space for resident companies and related ventures. The Center, which opened this month, is equipped with a broad array of premium scientific equipment and will offer additional services and amenities for resident companies.

The newly renovated space is strategically designed to promote collaboration and help startups go further and faster on limited investment capital, enabling a potentially shorter path from proof-of-concept to commercialization. Princeton Innovation Center Biolabs will also host regular educational programming and community networking events. There is ample free parking available.

Media Contacts
Princeton: Michael Hotchkiss, mh14@princeton.edu
Biolabs: Caroline Grossman caroline@biolabs.io

Please RSVP by noon Wednesday, Jan 24th, to Michael Hotchkiss:

Health 2.0's Diversifying Digital Health event will take place at The Farm in Soho, New York, NY on January 22, 2018.

Join this event to dig into the topic of diversity in the digital health space. The goal of this meet-up is to foster an honest and frank discussion about how we can create diverse workplaces and develop inclusive technology for the people we serve.

The 2018 Small Business Contracts & Capital Sourcing Expo is taking place at Rutgers, Newark, NJ on January 12, 2018 from 8:00am - 1:00pm.

This is a business-to-business-to-consumer networking event. Entrepreneurs and small businesses are given an opportunity to market, promote and sell their products or services to a diverse audience. The Expo is a great way to increase sales and directly market to consumers.

There will be a Holiday Networking Event hosted by Princeton Tech Meetup on December 14, 2017 from 6:30pm - 8:45pm at the Princeton Public Library (Community Room - 1st Floor).

There will be expanded food and refreshments, and most of the floor will be open for networking. Around the perimeter of the room, we will have booths set up for sponsors and selected members to demo their products and services.

New Jersey Entrepreneurial Network's Company Valuations From An Entrepreneurs And An Investors Viewpoint will take place at TigerLabs, 232 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ on December 13 from 5:00pm - 8:00pm.