As an early-career researcher or PhD candidate your research is high-risk, high-reward.

You work in a team which aims to get the most out of its funding and to leverage those outputs to get more funding.

You may even be conducting translational research... so you know a lot about running a science startup right?

Come and test your assumptions with Dominic Falcão, Founding Director of Deep Science Ventures. 

Deep Science Ventures is scaling the impact of science through a systematic, optimised method of company formation.

Starting with technical and market hypotheses their companies are solving scientific crises like animal model dogma in pharmaceuticals and scaling carbon capture chemistries for a carbon neutral world.

Dominic will take us through the real world of high impact science commercialization, starting with the right problem.

Existing models pivot around 1) people 2) specific problems (usually either extremely niche or extremely vague)

or 3) a new technology with little space to consider a systems level perspective. Read More...

Agenda:

10 mins  - Data Driven Innovation @ The University of Edinburgh

50 mins     - Dominic Falcão 

10 mins  - Audience Q&A

20 mins     - Networking

Dom previously led Imperial College London’s science startup programme: worked with over 200 student companies, and supported a fraction of these to raise over £25m in funding within 3 years. Left Imperial in 2016 to co-found DSV.



Please contact Dr. Thane Campbell with any questions thane.campbell@ei.ed.ac.uk