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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221107T150000
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URL:https://www.eng.ufl.edu/news-events/events/bme-seminar-from-bioenginee
 ring-to-bioentrepreneurship/
SUMMARY:BME Seminar: From Bioengineering to Bioentrepreneurship
DESCRIPTION:Isaac Rodriguez\, Ph.D.\, Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer\
 , SweetBio\, Inc.\nDr. Rodriguez will share his journey from being a biome
 dical engineering graduate student to postdoctoral fellow to starting his 
 own medical device company with his business-minded sister. His journey in
 cludes securing $6M from venture capital and angel investors\, navigating 
 the FDA with a product he co-invented in the lab\, obtaining Medicare cove
 rage\, being issued 15 international patents\, and scaling marketing/comme
 rcialization efforts in the rapidly changing multi-billion dollar wound ca
 re industry.\nBio:\nIsaac Rodriguez\, PhD is the Co-Founder and Chief Scie
 nce Officer of SweetBio\, Inc.\, a commercial-ready medical device company
  with FDA-cleared\, Medicare covered\, bioengineered\, collagen + honey ad
 vanced wound care products. To date\, SweetBio has raised $6M and has been
  highlighted by Apple\, on 60 Minutes\, in USA Today\, and in Forbes. Dr. 
 Rodriguez is the co-inventor of the SweetBio technology with 15 years of e
 xperience in tissue engineering\, regenerative medicine\, and biomaterials
 . His work has been cited 1\,000+ times in academic journals. Dr. Rodrigue
 z is responsible for evidence and publication strategy\, external communic
 ations regarding evidence and baseline science\, new product development\,
  intellectual property\, and supporting strategic\, marketing\, operations
  and fundraising activities. Some of Dr. Rodriguez’s notable achievement
 s include serving as the keynote speaker for NASA Langley’s 2017 Hispani
 c Heritage Month Celebration\, being named Memphis’ Top 40 Under 40 in 2
 015\, and being honored in 2017 by Virginia Commonwealth University as a T
 op 10 Alumni to graduate in the last 10 years.
CATEGORIES:Seminars
LOCATION:Communicore Room C1-9\, 1249 Center Dr.\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32610
 \, United States
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