All welcome! Tailored for researchers, ECRs and students. Please RSVP by Thursday, 14 November for catering purposes.

Learn from a panel of professionals on how to better engage industry and increase your knowledge of processes for commercialisation, patenting and industry partnering within UQ.

9:00 – 9:10                   Trent Woodruff ‘Welcome’

9:10 – 10:00                 Anna Daniel, Innovation Connections ‘Industry and researchers working together – why bother?’

10:00 – 10:45               Craig Belcher, Uniquest ‘So you want industry funding? Tips from the trenches: What, when, why, who and how.’

10:45 – 11:15               Morning tea (foyer)

11:15 – 12:00               Tony Weiss, University of Sydney ‘Synthetic skin – one academic’s experience in overcoming barriers from bench to bedside’

12:00 – 12:45               Fiona Simpson, UQDI ‘Crossing the valley of death and how to survive the many hells of lab to clinic translation’

12:45 – 1:00                  Open panel discussion

1:00                                 Lunch (foyer)

About SBMS Industry Engagement Workshop

Learn from a panel of professionals on how to better engage industry and increase your knowledge of processes for commercialisation, patenting and industry partnering within UQ.

 

Venue

Room: 
QBI Level 7 Seminar Room