Innovation hangout for academia and industry

Welcome to this meeting place where we want to inspire researchers and students, give them self-confidence and knowledge about the innovation process, help them build networks, and facilitate collaboration between academia and industry. This hangout is a collaboration with Oslo Cancer Cluster and Oslo Cancer Cluster Incubator.

People talking and networking. Signs saying innovation hangout – a meeting place for academia and industry and tonight, talks, matchmaking, mingling.

For researchers and students at the University of Oslo, researchers at Oslo University Hospital (OUS) and Akershus University Hospital (Ahus), members of Oslo Cancer Cluster, Oslo Cancer Cluster Incubator, The Life Science Cluster, Health2B, Norway Health Tech, LMI, Aleap, ShareLab, the Oslo Science Park community and Oslo Science City partners. Free of charge, but you had to sign up.

Registration opens at 4:30 PM, programme starts at 5:00 PM

Programme

Inspirational talks

Erik SkullerudThe rocky road of biotech commercialization

Erik Skullerud, M.Sc., Founder and CEO, Insider Group

 

 

 

Ester SlarskyInvestor perspective on the “rocky road” for biotechs

Ester Sklarsky, M.Sc., Principal, Sound Bioventures

 

 

 

More about the speakers and their talks

Erik has 30 years experience from pharma and biotech (Amgen, Bayer, Nordic Nanovector) within oncology, hematology, nephrology, cardiology, diabetes and bone disease. He was an integral part of building Amgen from a small biotech company to one of the largest in Europe. In his talk he will give glimpses of his career and share lessons learned along the way with regards to biotech commercialization – that can be a rocky road – and tell the background for establishing Insider Group and its role in innovation ecosystem and how the company interacts with other actors.

Ester holds a B.Sc. in Biomedicine and a M.Sc.in Bioentrepreneurship from Karolinska Institutet. She is