Info Session MLSC Small Business Matching Grant

Wednesday, January 18, 2012
600 Suffolk Street, 2nd Floor

Lowell, MA 01854

10:00 a.m.

M2D2 Innovation Hub Board Room

Wannalancit Mills Office and Technology Center

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If you are interested in this event
please contact us at:
M2D2@uml.edu or 978-934-3465

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Learn about Intellectual Property: M2D2 Features an IP Table Talk Event

Wednesday, February 8, 2012
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
M2D2 Innovation Hub Board Room

Wannalancit Mills Office and Technology Center
600 Suffolk Street, 2nd Floor
Lowell, MA 01854

Table 1: Creating an IP Plan That Attracts Capital

This discussion will center around the IP Plan, and how to develop and implement a plan that will help raise capital.


Table 2: Protecting Your IP

This discussion will center around IP basics, including the different types of IP, when and where to file, and patentability.



Table 3: Understanding Barriers to Market Entry



This discussion will focus on freedom to operate , including when to
conduct freedom to operate searches, and how to be prepared for IP
due
diligence.


Sponsored By:

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Does your start-up need a technology or help developing one? An introduction to University Technology Licensing and Sponsored Research Agreements

Tuesday December 13th, 2011

From 5:30-7:30 p.m.

M2D2 Innovation Hub Board Room, Wannalancit Mills Office & Technology Center, 600 Suffolk Street, 2nd Floor, Lowell, MA 01854

Working with Universities can be a tremendous opportunity for companies of all sizes.


‘ Do you know of a technology developed at a University that could create a new business opportunity for you or help your improve the competitiveness of your current products?


‘ Do you have an idea needing development or a complex problem that you need expertise solving?


‘ Do you need testing or prototyping done at competitive prices?

Speakers:

Jill Murthi MBA, Director of Commercial Ventures and Intellectual Property at UMass Lowell. Jill has expertise in technology licensing and has spent 10+ of her career focused on biotech and life science licensing and intellectual property management. Jill is a patent agent and was formerly at MGH/Partners.

Gayathri Srinivasan Ph.D, Licensing Officer, UMass Medical School, Office of Technology Management. Gayathri was a licensing associate at MIT’s licensing office prior to UMass Medical School. Gayathri’s background is in Microbiology. She received her Ph.D. from Ohio State University and pursued her post doctoral work at MIT.

Pre-registration Fee: $10.00
After December 8, 2011 & On-Site Registration Fee: $20.00



M2D2 Sponsors

Platinum/Title Sponsor

Nutter logo

M2D2 Bronze Sponsors

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Sallop Insurance Waterfield logo

M2D2 Sponsoring MVVF “Creating Class I & II Medical Devices”

M2D2is proud to sponsor the following MVVF event.

Creating Class I & II Medical Devices

Thursday, November 10, 2011
600 Suffolk Street, 2nd Floor

Lowell, MA 01854

5:00p.m. -8:30p.m.

M2D2 Innovation Hub Board Room

Wannalancit Mills Office and Technology Center

Keynote Speaker: Read McCarty

Read McCarty is a serial entrepreneur having founded, among other companies, Children’s Medical Ventures Inc. and Hawaii Medical – both companies were acquired by publicly traded companies. Read has invented both Class I And Class II medical devices. He recognized opportunity in NICU and newborn nursery market and then developed innovative products, created the manufacturing process and implemented successful marketing strategies.
Read will tell his story and the lessons he learned and is still learning at his new venture SunShine Medical.

Agenda:

5:00-6:00 Registration, Networking and Refreshments

6:00-6:15 Opening Remarks and Introductions

6:15-6:45 Keynote Presentation

6:45-8:00 Panel Presentations: Patent Litgation, Early Steps in Filing and
Protecting an Idea, Regulatory Issues for USA, Canada and
EU,Winning an SBIR grant

8:00-8:30 Q & A

Pleasefollowingthe link below to the MVVF registration page to registerfor this event.

MVVF
“CREATING CLASS I & II MEDICAL DEVICES” REGISTRATION PAGE

MVVF has agreed to extend the MVVF member rate of $25 to M2D2 members. Here is how the discount works: on the registration page click on the MVVF Affiliate button for the discounted admission rate of $25.In the Affiliate boxenter M2D2. After the event a final registration list of all who attended will be forwarded.

We would like to thank the following M2D2 sponsors for their support!

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M2D2 Sponsor Event – ACCELERATION 2011: Nutter Early Stage Life Sciences Conference

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Please
find below information regarding the “Acceleration 2011: Nutter Early
Stage Life Sciences Conference. This event is being held by Nutter
McClennen & Fish LLP.

ACCELERATION 2011: Nutter Early Stage

Life Sciences Conference

November 17, 2011

3:00 – 7:00 pm

Nutter Conference Center

www.acceleration.nutter.com/2011

Presented by Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Co-Presented by Halloran Consulting Group and PwC

An outstanding line-up of speakers is being assembled for this conference including representatives of Atlas Venture, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Novartis, Smith and Nephew, Longwood Founders Fund, and Pfizer. Two panel discussions will examine issues and trends in early-stage development among life science companies.

The first panel will seek to answer the question “How Lean is Too Lean?” and will consider some of the pitfalls and challenges faced by development stage life science companies as they execute on a lean business model from raw technology through the clinical and operational phases of development and finally to commercial launch. The second panel asks “Are Big Pharma and Big Device the New Development Accelerators?”and will examine how large companies are deploying new external investment and development models to optimize their “buy” and “build” pipelines.

This free event is available by invitation only. Please visit

www.acceleration.nutter.com/2011
to request an invitation, view the Agenda and other information.

M2D2 SBIR/STTR Workshop – November 2, 2011

M2D2 SBIR/STTR Workshop
Are you a medical device company thinking of applying for an SBIR/STTRgrant from NIH?

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

5:30p.m. -7:30p.m.

M2D2 Innovation Hub Board Room

Wannalancit Mills Office and Technology Center

600 Suffolk Street, 2nd Floor

Lowell, MA 01854

M2D2
is a Medical Device Innovation Hub between UMass Lowell and UMass
Worcester. M2D2 has a history of successfully helping entrepreneurs
submit and receive SBIR and STTRgrant
funds from NIH. Come learn about SBIR and STTRgrantopportunities
from NIH for medical device development and learn about the things you
need to know to apply.

The session will feature Dr. Natalie Rudolph, from Rudolph Biomedical Consultingas a distinguished speaker.

Dr.
Rudolph’s familiarity with both corporate and academic research culture
draws on more than 24 years of experience in the biotech and biomedical
industries. She held scientific
and management positions at two start-up biotechnology companies, where
she helped to develop and support three lines of biomedical assay
reagents, managed an intellectual property portfolio, and coordinated
technology licenses and extramural research collaborations.
For the last 17 years, she has worked with small companies and research
institutions to develop R&D project strategies and fund them
through non-dilutive grants and contracts.

M2D2 SBIR/STTR Workshop

register now button

Please note all credit card & debit cards
are processed by paypal

Early registration admission fee $10.00

After Friday, October 28, 2001 admisstion fee $20.00

If you prefer to pay by check or cash, please email
m2d2@uml.edu
or call Ruth Dubey at 978-934-3499.
Please make checks payable to “M2D2”. ALL CHECK AND CASH TRANSACTIONS
MUST EMAIL M2D2 TO PRE-REGISTERNO LATERFRIDAY OCTOBER 28, 2011.

We would like to thank the following M2D2 sponsors for their support!

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Pictures from Grand Opening – M2D2 Medical Device Business Incubator, September 22, 2011

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Speaking Program. Starting from the left: Thomas Sommer, President of MassMEDIC, State Representative Thomas Golden, Senator Eileen Donoghue, Jay Gonzales, Secretary-Executive Office for Administration and Finance, Chancellor Marty Meehan, UMass Lowell, State Representative Kevin Murphy, Stephen McCarthy, M2D2 Co-Director, Charles Leahy, Vista Scientific LLC Co-Founder.

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Starting from the left: State
Representative Thomas Golden, Senator Eileen Donoghue, Jay Gonzales,
Secretary-Executive Office for Administration and Finance, Thomas Sommer, President of MassMEDIC, Chancellor
Marty Meehan, UMass Lowell, State Representative Kevin Murphy, Stephen McCarthy, M2D2 Co-Director,
Charles Leahy, Vista Scientific LLC Co-Founder.

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Ribbon Cutting Ceremony. From the left: John Sullivan, Vice Chancellor for Research, UMass Medical School, Susan Windham-Bannister, President and CEO Mass Life Sciences Center, Jay Gonzales,
Secretary-Executive Office for Administration and Finance, State
Representative Thomas Golden, Chancellor
Marty Meehan, UMass Lowell, Stephen McCarthy, M2D2 Co-Director, Senator Eileen Donoghue.

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Inventor and Researcher Poster Session. From the left: Robert Thompson, Charles Leahy, Ed Ellis, Jack Rulander, Stephen Johnston, Vista Scientific LLC and Stephen McCarthy, M2D2 Co-Director.

For more pictures, please click on the following link to the online gallery:

http://web.uml.edu/gallery/index.php/Events/M2D2-Opening-9-22-2011

M2D2 Open House – August 16th


M2D2
Open House – August 16th
5:30 to 8 PM

Wannalancit Mill, 600 Suffolk St., Lowell, MA

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M2D2, the Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center
atUMass Lowell opened a new medical device business
incubator/accelerator this month. The new facility is open for business
and
features state of the art wet labs, private offices, and flexible
cubicle space. Start-up companies and entrepreneurs can license the
space they needfromM2D2 and focus on growing their medical device from
idea to fruition.


Come to our open house event and learn how to launch your medical device company. Our experienced directors and executive team will be at the event and will sit down with you to discuss your idea!

LetM2D2 help your new medical device venture be a success!”

PLEASE RSVP to Wendy_zimbone@uml.edu

UMassLowell’s M2D2
978-934-3465

University of Massachusetts Lowell
Lowell, Massachusetts 01854