April 12, 2013 –
Bioengineering Ph.D. student Connie Cheung was the team leader for the third-place team in this year’s UCSF Idea to IPO course.
The unique course uses seasoned entrepreneurs, teachers and mentors to help student teams translate their concepts into health care and life science startup businesses. The seventy students formed teams to focus on an idea, assess its market potential, create a business model and learn about clinical trials, financing, budgets, legal structures, regulatory requirements, intellectual property and operational basics.
The experience culminated in pitches to industry experts, where Cheung’s team won $15,000 in third place. Spiria, their business idea, uses an approach to brain mapping, based on a grid of sensors, is faster and safer than current methods. Read more at UCSF.