'Garage' Start-ups Now Possible in Life Sciences Industry

Business and research opportunities are affording today's "garage" entrepreneurs-similar to those who built Silicon Valley decades ago-the chance to create successful new companies in the life sciences industry, according to business leaders who will speak at Keck Graduate Institute on Dec. 2.

As part of KGI's Focus Track Fridays seminar series, executives with experience at both large pharmaceutical manufacturers and promising startups will discuss how the industry is changing and what paths tomorrow's success stories in biotechnology will take.

The subject

Following Eck will be panel discussion addressing the subject: "Open, cheap and fast: New models of biotechnology entrepreneurship." Those scheduled to speak are Ryan Bethencourt, director of business development for Parexel; Joel Dudley, co-founder and director of informatics at NuMedii; and Raymond McCauley, chief science officer for Genomera.

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