"Creating your own company" meeting on March 1

Since December 2015, the Education Department, the MAASCC welcome and support structure for contract researchers and the Research Applications and Industrial Relations Department have been running a new monthly event offering scientists interested in business development the chance to meet a leading entrepreneur in the area of biotechnology. The aim is to encourage those interested in setting up their own company.

This event, entitled "Creating your own company", takes the form of a breakfast meeting on the first Tuesday of each month, from 8.30 to 10am.

The next edition will take place on Tuesday March 1 in the Émile Duclaux lecture hall.

Participants in this upcoming session will have the chance to talk with the physicist Mathias Fink, a specialist in wave physics applied to biomedical imaging. He is a professor at ESPCI ParisTech, the founder and former director of the Langevin Institute for Waves and Images, a member of the French Academy of Sciences and also held the chair of Technological Innovation at the Collège de France. Mathias Fink is a member of the Innovation 2030 Commission and the Higher Council for Science and Technology.

• To sign up, please send an email to Lisa Riffaud. Note that there are just 20 spaces available and the deadline for registration is February 26.