Rebecca Slotegraaf, Associate Dean for Research, IU Kelley School of Business
On March 1 The Center for the Business of Life Sciences at the Indiana University – Kelley School of Business hosted a life sciences researched focused, one-day conference organized by faculty leads George Ball and Jonathan Helm aimed at bringing together life sciences related research faculty from twenty universities; industry leaders from Boston Scientific, Cook Medical, Live Oak Quality Assurance LLC, Medtronic and MedMine; and healthcare regulators to stimulate important new research questions and collaborations as well as share the latest in data-driven life sciences academic research. This conference provided a unique setting in which industry, academia and regulators could merge their interests and research priorities to discuss the most pressing life sciences and healthcare topics of our time. These included the safety of generic drugs, pharmaceutical clinical trials, diabetes treatment in telehealth settings and kidney donor allocation strategies.
George Ball, IU Kelley School of Business and Sanjay Mehrotra, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University.
Peter Baker, Former FDA Investigator & President, Live Oak Assurance
Thanks to Sanjay Mehrotra of the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University for delivering the academic keynote, Peter Baker of Live Oak Quality Assurance and former FDA investigator for delivering the regulatory keynote, and Christopher Harrold of Medtronic for providing a practitioner perspective in the industry keynote.
Chris Harrold, Vice President, Enterprise Core Quality Services, Medtronic Corporation
Congratulations to Hanu Tyagi of the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota for being awarded $500 best life sciences research paper “Does Transparency Hinder Technological Novelty? Evidence from Large Pharmaceutical Firms” co-authored with Manuel Hermosilla and Rachna Shah. Special mention to Anqi(Angie) Wu of the College of Business, Florida International University; Christopher Chen of the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University; and Ujjal Kumar Mukherjee, Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign for being selected out of the field of applicants to present their life sciences research.
Anqi Wu, University College of Business, Florida International University
Chris Chen, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Ujjal Mukherjee, Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Hanu Tyagi, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
Winner of CBLS Best Paper Competition Award
CBLS brings together faculty, life science companies, and other corporate partners to:support research on significant issues and questions faced by the industry and create significant networking opportunities for students, faculty, companies, and friends to connect in order to strengthen Indiana’s life science industry.
Research Faculty from twenty universities network with life sciences industry representatives.
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