UPDATE: New Speaker at "The Age Of 'Big Data' In Bioscience Is Here, But Are We Prepared For It?" Panel Discussion in NYC on June 7, 2012

The panel discussion entitled "The Age of Big Data in Bioscience is Here, But are we prepared for it?" will be held June 7, 2012 at K&L Gates, LLP, located at 599 Lexington Ave. - 32d Floor - Seminar Room, New York, NY. It is hosted by the MIT Enterprise Forum Of NYC and LES NYC. See more information about the panel discussion here. 

UPDATE: Wanmei Ou Ph.D., Healthcare Product Strategist for Oracle Health Sciences will be speaking instead of Brett Davis, Senior Director of Oracle Health Sciences. See Wanmei's biography below:

"Wanmei Ou Ph.D. is a Healthcare Product Strategist in Oracle’s Health Sciences Global Business Unit responsible for the Translational Research Center solution. She works closely with leaders in healthcare and life sciences to understand their requirements and transform them into development activities shaping the product functions. In addition to this product strategy role, she is also an R&D liaison with multiple research laboratories in bioinformatics and natural language processing. 

Prior to joining Oracle, Wanmei obtained a Ph.D. degree in computer sciences from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with focus on biomedical imaging. While completing this work, she worked closely with scientists at both Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She also received the NSF Graduate Research and the Advanced Multimodal Neuroimaging fellowships during her graduate studies. Previous industry experience includes work at Siemens Corporate Research where she received a U.S. patent on her work on multimodal image registration. She also worked as a programmer analyst at the New York Blood Center focusing on population genetics." 

Read more at mitef-nyc.org. 

MIT Enterprise Forum of NYC & LES NYC Presents: The Age of "Big Data" in Bioscience is Here, But are we prepared for it? June 7, 2012

MIT Enterprise Forum of New York City and LES NYC are presenting a panel discussion entitled "The Age of Big Data in Bioscience is Here, But are we prepared for it?" The discussion will be held June 7, 2012 at K&L Gates, LLP, located at 599 Lexington Ave. - 32d Floor - Seminar Room, New York, NY. 

DESCRIPTION: 

The bioscience research community is producing more and larger sets of data in its quest to understand biology and manage disease. Much of these data are being generated by teams of scientists spanning many institutions and geographies. As we come to appreciate these data as a new asset class, we need to understand how to properly manage, protect and share this asset so its value can be realized. 

A distinguished panel of experts will discuss managing and protecting "Big data" as i) intellectual property, ii) trade secrets and iii) open source. We will explore opportunities and challenges including storage and access issues, data protection, ownership (who owns the "$1,000 genome" data – the producer or the purchaser?) and future advances in analysis and utility. 

AGENDA:

5:30pm - 6:00pm: Reception

6:00pm - 7:30pm: Panel Discussion

7:30pm - 8:30pm: Networking

REGISTRATION:

Free to members of MIT Enterprise Forum

$50 non-members, $10 extra at door

All members and guests are welcome.

PANEL:

Moderator: Eric Vieira, PhD, Assistant Director/Business Development, Mount Sinai School of Medicine. 

Speakers: Louis C. Cullman, Esq., Partner, K&L Gates, LLP, Primary Outside IP Counsel to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Health Program; Brett Davis, Senior Director/Oracle Health Sciences, Oracle; and David Greenwald, PhD, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Relay Technology Management. 

Read more at mitef-nyc.org.