A Benchmark Industry - Focused, Industry - Driven Program

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A Benchmark Industry - Focused, Industry -
Driven Program
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Fundamentals of the Bioscience Industry
Certificate Program
Cutting edge and innovative, this
industry-focused and industry-driven program is
designed to provide participants with a
comprehensive introduction to the critical
factors of strategic importance that drive the
bioscience industry.
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Program Goal
Provide current life sciences graduate
students, post-docs, and incumbent employees with
a comprehensive introduction to the complexities
of the bioscience business environment. 
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Course format

• Consists of 3 modules
• 1st module details the product development
  process from a technical, scientific, and
  strategic perspective and provides an
  understanding of the regulatory process required
  to bring a scientific product to market. 
• 2nd module learn about the basic concepts of
  business management pertaining to the Bioscience
  Industry.
• 3rd module provides an understanding of
  corporate culture and effective career
  development strategies.

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A critical component of the Fundamentals of the
Bioscience Industry program is the extensive
professional career development mentoring
extended to all participants in the program.
The course will be augmented with extensive
mentoring by the industry executives who teach
and participate as guest lecturers in the
course. http//www.biotech.sunysb.edu/educWork/ce
rtprog/students/index.html
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Benefits of the program

• Understand the process by which a technology
  becomes a product
• Gain insight into the factors that influence
  corporate decision making
• Appreciate how each department functions within a
  company that contributes to corporate objectives
• Be better prepared to navigate your own career
  and contribute to corporate goals
• Gain the contacts that will help you be
  successful

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Academic Partners

• Affiliated with
• Stony Brook University's MBA program Accepted as
  course work
• Stony Brook University's Department of Biomedical
  Engineering MS/PhD program Accepted for credit
• Columbia University's MA in Biotechnology
  Program Accepted for credit

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More Information
http//www.biotech.sunysb.edu/educWork/certprog/in
dex.html Angeline Judex, Program Director
Center for BiotechnologyPsychology A, 3rd
FloorStony Brook UniversityStony Brook, NY
11794-2580 Tel [phone] Fax
631-632-8577