标题: [china:] Biotech management/strategy consulting networking next Tuesday!

Date: Nov 4th, 2008
Time: 12:00-1:30 PM
Location: TBA
Lunch will be provided.

Interested in biotech management consulting work? Wanted to network into RTP hi-tech industry? WiSE is hosting Dr. Dibner from Bioability, a biotech strategy firm in RTP. Spaces are limited so please RSVP soon! Bring your questions and learn how to break into the field of
consulting!

RSVP (http://survey.oit.duke.edu/ViewsFlash/servlet/viewsflash?cmd=showform&pollid=WISE!dibner)

Biography of Dr. Mark Dibner: (BioAbility   http://www.bioability.com)

Mark D. Dibner  is President and founder of BioAbility(R). Mark received his Ph.D. in neurobiology and pharmacology from Cornell University Medical College, his MBA in strategic planning from Widener
University and his BA in Physiological Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.  He spent 10 years as a research scientist in both academia and industry. He has written more than 115 published articles
and is the author or editor of 13 books on commercial biotechnology and the life sciences. For 12 years he served as adjunct associate
professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, teaching courses in management of  technology and entrepreneurship, and for three years was a Management and Technology Fellow of the Wharton
School of the University of Pennsylvania.  He has served on the boards of directors for four biotechnology companies, the Council of Biotechnology Centers, the Association of Biotechnology Companies, and
the Emerging Companies Section of BIO, as well as on editorial boards.

Prior to starting BioAbility in 1994, he spent eight years managing BioAbility's precursor group as a vice president of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, and prior to that was a principal scientist at
E.I. DuPont for six years.  He was also the co-founder and President of Strategic Outcomes Services, Inc., a pharmacoeconomics consulting firm (1998, until its sale in 2001), and is Chairman and Founder of
Kramden Institute, Inc., a 501(c)3 not-for-profit charity (2003- ). Mark has expertise in strategic planning, new business formation, and
regional development.

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