Biotechnology Business Development
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Books

March 2008

August 2006

Publications

  • Seline, R.S., Friedman, Y. "Biotechnology in the United States: Genesis and Current Challenges" in AICGS Policy report 28: Innovation in the United States and Germany, Johns Hopkins University American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, 2007
  • Seline, R.S., Friedman, Y. "Hubs and Nodes, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Globalization" in Fostering Hope and Vision for the 21st Century, World Future Society, 2007
  • Friedman, Y. "The 5 Spot" Biotech360, May 2007
  • Friedman, Y. "Questioning the business of biotechnology." Book Review. Biotechnology Journal, 2006 1:1474
  • Seline, R.S., Friedman, Y. Global Hubs and Global Nodes of Biotechnology (2006) New Economy Strategies
  • Friedman, Y. "Developing biotechnology in the Philippines. Filipinos share the same challenges as many Americans." Manila Bulletin, February 11th 2006
  • (contributor) "Building the Future: A Status Report." Business 2.0, August 2005
  • Friedman, Y. "Developing biotechnology without venture capital in your backyard." Industrial Biotechnology, 2005 1:85-87
  • Friedman, Y.E. and Seline, R. "Cross-border biotech." Nature Biotechnology, 2005. 23:656-657
  • Yang, J., Friedman, Y.E., O.Brian, M.R. (2005) "Regulation of heme and iron metabolism in Bradyrhizobium japonicum" in Wang, Y-P. et al (Eds.) Bacterial Nitrogen Fixation, Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment Netherlands: Springer
  • Friedman, Y.E. and O.Brian, M.R. "The Ferric uptake regulator (Fur) protein from Bradyrhizobium japonicum is an iron-responsive transcriptional repressor in vitro." Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2004 279:32100-32105
  • Friedman, Y.E. and O.Brian, M.R. "A Novel DNA-binding Site for the Ferric Uptake Regulator (Fur) Protein from Bradyrhizobium japonicum." Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2003 278:38395-38401
  • Friedman, Y.E. and O.Brian, M.R. "Transcriptional control of the heme biosynthesis regulator Irr by Fur in Bradyrhizobium japonicum." Gordon Research Conference, Chemistry & Biology of Tetrapyrolles, 2002

Presentations

    2008

    Guest speaker, National Institutes of Health Office of Technology Transfer (Rockville, MD) "Forget Everything You Thought You Knew About Biotechnology Entrepreneurship"
    Guest speaker, Rutgers Univesity (New Brunswick, NJ) "Forget Everything You Thought You Knew About Biotechnology Entrepreneurship"
    Panelist, George Mason University (Fairfax, VA) "Biotechnology Career Development"

    2007

    Guest speaker, Keck Graduate Institute (Claremont, CA) "An Integrated View of the Biotechnology Industry"
    Opening speaker, closing panelist, Biotechnology in Turkey Conference (Istanbul, Turkey) "Building Turkish Biotechnology"
    Speaker, Buffalo Old Home Week (Buffalo, NY) "Beyond Bass Pro: Building Buffalo's Innovation Infrastructure"
    Speaker, Innovation in the United States and Germany (New York) "Biotechnology in the United States: Genesis and Current Challenges"
    Guest lecturer, University of Maryland University College (College Park, MD) "Functional Overview of the Biotechnology Industry"
    Guest speaker, UNC-Chapel Hill. "Biotechnology Career Development"
    Guest speaker, UC Davis. "Biotechnology Career Development"
    Panelist, Department of Labor WIRED Institute on Alternative Energy (Denver, CO) "A Bioproduct / Biofuel Cluster Strategy for Eastern Montana"
    Speaker, TiE-DC (Rockville, MD) "How to Build a Biotech Business"

    2006

    Speaker, Maryland Women and Technology Forum (Columbia, MD). "Technology Business Trends in the Next Five Years"
    Speaker, National Business Incubation Association International Conference on Business Incubation (St. Louis, MO). "Building a Self-Sustaining Innovation Ecosystem"
    Invited Speaker, The Crossroad of Biotechnology (Montreal, Canada). "EcoIndustrial Clusters"
    Keynote Speaker, Philippine Biotech Venture Summit (Manila, Philippines). "State of the Global Biotech Industry", "Developing Biotechnology in the Philippines"
    Panel Chair, Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy (Honolulu, HI). "New Business Models for Bioproducts"

    2005

    Panelist, BioNorth (Ottawa, ON). "A National Strategy Built on Local Success"
    Invited Speaker, Nanotechnology: The Future is Now (Chicago, IL). "Overcoming Hurdles to Commercializing Nanotechnology"
    Panelist, World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing (Orlando, FL). "Developing Biotechnology Without a VC in Your Backyard"
    Invited Speaker, Tepper School of Business (Pittsburgh, PA). "Biotechnology Clusters - Rationale, Development, and Emerging Trends"

    2004

    WJJG Radio Interview (Chicago, IL). "Biotechnology trends, business strategy, tort"
    Invited speaker, Nanotechnology Innovation, Opportunity, and Commercialization (Troy, NY). "Nanotechnology: Business Lessons from Biotechnology"
    Guest lecturer, University of Buffalo School of Management. MBA classes on biotechnology
    Invited Speaker, BioBuffalo Symposium on the Business of Biotechnology (Buffalo, NY). "The Business of Biotechnology"
    Invited Speaker, Richard Ivey School of Business (London, ON). "Entrepreneurship in biotechnology"

    2003

    Panelist, New York Biotechnology Association (New York, NY) "Starting biotech companies"

    2002

    580 CFRA Radio Interview (Ottawa, ON). Biotechnology investing strategies, industry trends

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