Talks at the Square with Morten Sommer
Date and time
Talks at the Square w. Morten Sommer 'Starting up companies from academia'
About this event
On Thursday, 10 March, we're thrilled to host our next Talks at the Square event at BII.
This time we are pleased to welcome Morten Sommer, Professor and Group Leader at DTU Biosustain and serial entrepreneur.
In parallel to an outstanding academic career that led Morten Sommer to be announced as the youngest professor ever in Denmark, he has focused on translating research progress from his laboratory into start-ups. As a co-founder of six life science companies, amongst them SNIPR Biome and Union Therapeutics, Morten has first-hand experience on how to bring academic research into a more commercial setting.
During his Talks at the Square, he will share his insights on how to take different corporate development strategies with academic projects with a commercial potential and how you as a scientist gain entrepreneurial competencies such as investor dialogue, pharma partnering, FDA/EMA interactions and drug development along the way.
Program of the day
15.30 Doors open
16.00 Introduction to BII and the subject of the day: CEO of BII, Jens Nielsen
16.10 Keynote speaker: Morten Sommer 'Starting up companies from academia'
16.40 Fireside chat with Morten Sommer and Jens Nielsen and questions
17.00 Informal networking and closing reception
Please note that the event has free admittance with 60 tickets available. Please sign up quickly to secure your seat.
About Morten Sommer
Morten Sommer is Professor of Bacterial Synthetic Biology at the Technical University of Denmark and received his PhD from Harvard University in Biophysics.
Morten Sommer has founded several companies, including Union Therapeutics, SNIPR Biome, Biosyntia, Clinical-Microbiomics, Utility Therapeutics and Microlytic. In addition, he has published more than 50 peer reviewed paper and is the co-inventor on more than 25 patent applications licensed to public and private companies in the US and Europe.
About the Talks at the Square event series at BioInnovation Institute
'Talks at the Square' is an event series by BioInnovation Institute (BII) with a key focus on spreading ideas and knowledge in life science entrepreneurship to inspire researchers to bring science out of the lab and into the economy. The events feature high-level international speakers with topics that emphasize innovations and inspirational topics within bioindustrials, health tech, and therapeutics. The Talks at the Square events are hosted by BioInnovation Institute at the Square event space at the BII facilities in Copenhagen Bio Science Park (COBIS) in Copenhagen. Read more on: https://bii.dk/events-and-news/
