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2007 SAPA-West Business Forum on Road to Success: Building a Venture-Backed Life Science Company
Type:   Forum
Time:   1:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Date:   2007-02-25
Location:   Fenwick & West LLP Silicon Valley Center
801 California St. Mountain View, California 94041
Description:   Agenda:

1:00-1:20pm
Registration and Social

1:20-1:25pm Welcome and opening remarks
Jing-Shan Hu, President of SAPA-West

1:25-1:45pm Overview of building a venture-backed life science company
Sergio Garcia, Partner and Co-chair of the Life Sciences Group at Fenwick & West, LLP

1:45-2:15pm Business models and strategies for setting up biotech companies
Lucas S. Chang, Partner at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

2:15-2:45pm Current Trends in Financing and Building New Life Science Companies
Todd Morrill, Head of Business Development Life Sciences at Bio-Rad Laboratories and Instructor at UC Berkeley Haas Business School

2:45-3:15pm Investor’s view of funding a biotech company
Frank Kung, Managing partner and founding member of Vivo Ventures Investments, LLC (formerly BioAsia Investments)

3:15-3:45pm Break

3:45-4:15pm Getting the company ready for IP due diligence
Tom Ciotti, Partner and Founder of Venture Capital Intellectual Property Group at Morrison & Foerster LLP

4:15-4:45pm Start-up: my personal experience
Yiyou Chen, Chief Scientific Officer and co-founder of CrownBio

4:45-5:30pm Open discussion and social

Admission:   Free for active SAPA-West members
$10 for non-members
Organizers:   SAPA-West Business & Career Development Committee