{"id":289,"date":"2016-09-27T06:57:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T06:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/abdelaziz-bouras\/?p=289"},"modified":"2016-11-12T13:38:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T13:38:38","slug":"wcm-q-industry-academia-interactions-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/abdelaziz-bouras\/wcm-q-industry-academia-interactions-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"WCM-Q Industry Academia Interactions workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last 28th June\u00a02016, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar’s organized an interesting \u201cIndustry Academia Interactions\u201d workshop. I have presented the Industry-Integrated learning approach we are defending in the QNRF NPRP Pro-Skima Project and participated in the Industry Panel…<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

For more details:<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

WCM-Q event supports Qatar\u2019s growing biomedical R&D industry<\/a>\u00a0\"Qatar<\/a>Experts explore Qatar\u2019s biomedical R&D industry at WCM-Q meeting<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Biomedical researchers and industry representatives from across the globe met to discuss strategies for translating innovation from the laboratory to the marketplace at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar\u2019s (WCM-Q) Industry Academia Interactions event.<\/p>\n

Held at the Hilton Hotel in collaboration with Qatar Foundation, Qatar National Research Fund,\u00a0Sidra\u00a0Medical and Research Center and Qatar Science and Technology Park, the event explored ways to foster productive partnerships among researchers, funding institutions and businesses in order to develop commercially viable Intellectual Property (IP), a key aim of Qatar National Vision 2030.\u00a0The two-day event featured presentations by academic and industry experts on issues such as research funding, development of new pharmaceuticals, encouraging biotech startups, building a knowledge economy, investment in the biomedical sector in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, and startup incubation.<\/p>\n

Opening the event, Dr.\u00a0Javaid\u00a0Sheikh, Dean of\u00a0WCM-Q, said: \u201cThe pace of change in Qatar\u2019s knowledge-based economy has been incredibly swift – in the past decade the country has built a level of capacity in research and development that took more than 100 years in the countries of the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development). This rapid growth and development is what makes Qatar such an exciting place to work.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough the Industry Academia Interactions event we aim to facilitate relationships that will help translate Qatar\u2019s capacity for research into new ventures that will make significant and sustainable contributions to the growing hi-tech sector here.\u201d\u00a0Dr. Sheikh spoke on \u2018Guideposts for Angel Investors in\u00a0Biomed\u00a0Sectors in the MENA Region\u2019.<\/p>\n

The international group of expert speakers included Dr.\u00a0Hsiao\u00a0D. Lieu, Managing Director of Chorus, the integrated clinical research division of Lilly Research Laboratories, a global pharmaceutical research and development organization; Dr. Bruce Conway, Program Director of the Robertson Therapeutic Development Fund and faculty member at the Clinical Center for Translational Science at The Rockefeller University, New York; and Dr. Danny Ramadan, Acting Director of Strategic Research and Technology Investment Advisor at\u00a0QSTP, among many others.<\/p>\n

Dr. Louis\u00a0Herlands, Executive Director,\u00a0Sidra\u00a0Ventures Business Development and External Relations at\u00a0Sidra\u00a0Medical and Research Center, is responsible for the commercial development of technologies emanating from\u00a0Sidra. Dr.\u00a0Herlands, who gave a presentation titled \u2018Reduced Risk Biotech Startups\u2019, specializes in assessing the commercial viability of early-stage technologies and establishing productive collaborations at the intersection between academia, entrepreneurship, finance and industry.<\/p>\n

The event included multiple panel discussions where local and international experts tackled the issues of translation of research findings in the biomedical arena to commercially viable entities in Qatar, the Gulf and regionally. Multiple novel and creative paths were suggested and discussed and will form an important framework for future work in this area.<\/p>\n

Dr.\u00a0Khaled\u00a0Machaca, Associate Dean for Research at\u00a0WCM-Q\u00a0said: \u201cWith the support of\u00a0Qatar Foundation<\/a>, the research program at\u00a0WCM-Q\u00a0has become a regional center of excellence in biomedical research, leading to important and valuable discoveries in many fields. Gatherings like the Industry Academia Interactions event provide a platform where influential people from industry can interact with talented researchers, which we believe can foster strategic partnerships that will drive innovation and the creation of commercially viable new Intellectual Property.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this way, we believe the center of excellence established at\u00a0WCM-Q\u00a0can make a significant and important contribution to the mission to diversify economy of Qatar.\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last 28th June\u00a02016, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar’s organized an interesting \u201cIndustry Academia Interactions\u201d workshop. I have presented the Industry-Integrated learning approach […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":585,"featured_media":288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/abdelaziz-bouras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/abdelaziz-bouras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/abdelaziz-bouras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/abdelaziz-bouras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/abdelaziz-bouras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/abdelaziz-bouras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/abdelaziz-bouras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/abdelaziz-bouras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/abdelaziz-bouras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/abdelaziz-bouras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/abdelaziz-bouras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}