Fireside chat with Laura Deming from AGE1, presented by BCLA and AGE1
Event Information
Description
Biotech Connection LA brings you an exciting fireside chat and networking mixer with AGE1 at Nixon Peabody in downtown LA.
With a primary focus on research into longevity and ageing, AGE1 founder Laura Deming will be speaking about the cutting-edge reseach within the field, as well as the current opportunities availlable for researchers.
Don’t miss out the on opportunity to learn more about AGE1 and to network with fellow academics, entrepreneurs, and industry professionals over appetizers and drinks.
Join us on Nov 7th!
Stay tuned for more updates.
Event Schedule:
6.00 - 6.30 pm Registration
6.30 - 7.00 pm Mix & Mingle
7.00 - 7.40 pm Fireside chat
7.40 - 8.30 pm Networking
Fireside Chat Speaker:
Partner at The Longevity Fund
Since she was a kid, Laura has been fascinated by the idea that longevity is a mechanism we can manipulate. When she was 12, Laura moved to the US to take graduate coursework at UCSF before studying at MIT. She has worked in such groups as The Kenyon, Guarente, Weiss and Firestein labs on a number of topics, including aging and synthetic biology. In 2011, Laura started Longevity Fund, the first VC firm dedicated to funding high-potential longevity companies. So far, she’s raised $26M and have backed such companies as Unity Biotechnology, Decibel Therapeutics, Metacrine, Navitor, and System1. Building upon this success, Laura created the AGE1 Biotech accelerator to support early stage founder driven longevity companies, which look to develop therapeutics that will extend the human healthspan. Come join us for a conversation about her journey, and how to get involved with the AGE1 community.
Fireside chat moderator:
Sean Kim
Intellectual Property Transactional Attorney at Nixon Peabody LLP
Sean Kim is an associate in the Intellectual Property Counseling & Transactions group. His practice includes intellectual property counseling and commercial transactions, with a focus on technology and health care clients. He also serves as outside general counsel to more than 20 emerging growth companies. Prior to entering private practice, Sean was a patent agent at a multi-national technology corporation where he focused on IP procurement and commercialization.
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Parking:
There is parking in the building and it is $11.50 after 5pm. Entrance is from S Olive St.
https://www.parkme.com/lot/175227/1cal-parking-los-angeles-ca
There are also multiple parking lots nearby:
https://tinyurl.com/yd47cyxm
Organizers:
Biotech Connection Los Angeles (BCLA) is a project of the 501(c)(3) non-profit Community Partners. We are an organization run by academics and biotech professionals from all over Los Angeles and our mission is to inspire, educate and connect emerging scientists and entrepreneurs to grow and diversify biotech in LA. Los Angeles is home to renowned universities and research institutes producing top talents and exciting innovations. We are passionate about making our city a major biotech hub!
If you are interested in fostering early-stage entrepreneurship, retaining local talent, or just want to know more about what we do, subscribe to our newsletter, come to our events or donate to our cause. Let’s build a vibrant LA biotech community together.
Nixon Peabody LLP
We see 21st century law as a tool to help shape our clients’ futures.
Our focus is on knowing what is important to our clients now and next so we can foresee obstacles and opportunities in their space and smooth the way. We ensure they are equipped with winning legal strategies as they navigate the exciting and challenging times we live in.
Event Sponsors:
AGE1 is an accelerator for longevity companies.
Longevity is at an inflection point: due to scientific advances over the last 30 years, we are beginning to change how we interact with chronological age, living a longer number of healthy years than ever before. Here and now, we embark on this journey.
Age1 is a 4-month program based in SF which offers both capital and help to launch founder-driven biotechnology companies. We are selecting a small group of innovative scientists and technologists who are working to extend human healthspan to bring to San Francisco. We invest in them and their ideas, connect them with the best mentors and advisors, and help them reach critical inflection points faster.
https://age1.com/
BCLA Core Sponsors:
https://cnsi.ucla.edu
Established in 2000 as one of the Governor Gray Davis California Institutes for Science and Innovation, the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) is a hub of interdisciplinary research, translation, and education where scientists from diverse fields find common purpose in addressing grand challenges of the 21st century. With locations at the University of California’s Los Angeles and Santa Barbara campuses, the CNSI leverages public and private investment to drive collaborative nanoscience research across disciplines, translates discoveries into knowledge-driven commercial enterprises, and educates the next generation of scientists and engineers.
https://dornsife.usc.edu/bridge-institute
Building upon the university’s Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience Initiative, the Bridge Institute unites eminent professors across the entire university, including the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and the Keck School of Medicine of USC, as well as animators and cinematographers in the USC School of Cinematic Arts and the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, and technology transfer experts in the USC Stevens Center for Innovation. We are artists, engineers, scientists and physicians bridging the molecules of life to improve the human condition. Imagine a world where scientific data is released from the confines of its originating discipline, allowing us to better understand, integrate and advance knowledge. Our values are Teamwork, Imagination, Innovation, Learning, Teaching, and Convergence.
http://www.calstatela.edu/LABioStart
The LA BioStart Bioscience Entrepreneurs Boot Camp is a five-week, intensive training program that prepares emerging bioscience entrepreneurs to launch their own bioscience ventures. The boot camp is a collaborative project of Cal State LA, the Biocom Institute and the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator.
Participants learn business fundamentals, leadership skills and bioscience knowledge from industry leaders and business experts. Funded by the Economic Development Administration, the training is offered at no charge to eligible participants.
Early-stage entrepreneurs, emerging entrepreneurs seeking to market bioscience ideas, and scientists, university faculty, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students should apply.
