The University of Texas at Dallas Is Pleased To Present
Bringing DFW to Life
North Texas Technology and the Bio-Economy
(Life Sciences and Health Care Service Delivery)
May 14 to August 6, 2007
11 Week graduate course/certificate program
Distinguished lecturers, along with venture capital/angel investors and entrepreneurs join UT Dallas’s Don Hicks, Ph.D. (Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy) in presenting an 11-week graduate course and certificate program that explores a series of critical factors necessary for incubating a commercial bio-economy in North Texas. This course explores opportunities for commercial innovation and new ventures of North Texas technology competencies and world-class biomedical research.
This unique approach brings together an energetic mix of the best and brightest students, industry professionals, and distinguished lecturers to discuss how to maximize the life science/health care
industry’s economic potential in the North Texas region.
Classes will be held in The University of Texas at Dallas, School of Management, Executive Education Center room 1.502 located at 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas. The class will begin at 4:00 p.m.with a short networking period. There will be two Monday night breaks in the schedule for Memorial Day and July 4th weekend. Regular tuition fees apply for graduate students taking the course for credit. The certificate program for executives will cost $1295.00. Select lectures will be open to guest for a fee of $195.00.
Featuring
- Weekly Monday evening lectures introduce course participants to important research discoveries, technology developments, and investment opportunities that enable the growth and development of commercial bioscience industrial activity in the region.
- Special attention will be devoted to designing and developing next-generation biomedical/bioengineering technical advances and in deploying them in innovative 21st-century health care service delivery systems and infrastructures.
- This graduate-level course is open to students across the North Texas region. It is also open to non-degree seeking students as a certificate program with 5.5 CEU credits available to – professionals in ICT industries, attorneys, investment bankers, medical/health care, bio-technology, nanotechnology, public policy, and entrepreneurs.
For questions call or write Judith.aubrey@utdallas.edu
