Welcome

This comprehensive advanced program was designed with ambitious objectives: to create an exclusive learning platform and network where academia, industry and venture capitalists interact fruitfully.

Emerging companies in the BioTech and MedTech sectors face a complex set of issues: these range from the need to secure funding for innovative, lifesaving drugs and technologies to the mandatory legal and regulatory affairs.

The global environment is becoming more and more challenging. To help emerging BioTech and MedTech companies understand and develop the keys to success, Università della Svizzera italiana has created this advanced one-week comprehensive program on Bio- and MedTech Business. This training will provide young and future entrepreneurs with the necessary insights and skills with which to tackle the critical issues, vital for their companies to establish a strong position and grow in today’s market.

Indeed, the structure of this program is based on program modules with emphasis on Bio- and MedTech Entrepreneurship. These modules have been integrated in a progressive order of thematic clusters. With a common denominator, the creation and financing of BioTech and MedTech enterprises, they range from “Start-up a Business Opportunity” to “Busines Planning” and ”Preclinical & Clinical Studies”, including the “Mandatory Regulatory and Legal Affairs” as well as “Financing“, to end with an overview of possible “Exit Strategies”.

During the week, participants may also draft a plan for developing a new opportunity in their area. In addition, lectures will be complemented by case studies and extensive discussions. This program reflects a deliberately highly interdisciplinary approach to target more particularly young and future entrepreneurs, by giving them an opportunity to learn, talk, discuss, maybe to invent, and share their experiences.

Lectures and seminars are taught by a world-class team of instructors from the Institute of Finance of the University of Lugano, industry and venture capital.

We would be very pleased to welcome you to “Bio- and MedTech Business” in Lugano!

Dr. Heidrun Flaadt Cervini

Founder and Director of CASE BioMed, Center of Advanced Studies on Entrepreneurship in BioMedicine