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Homework 6:  Company Presentations.       L. Chasin, Course Part II

Teams of 3 students search for companies that have developed interesting new biotechnologies, discuss them, and then agree on one company to write up. Each student then then individually writes and submit a 300 to 500 word paper describing the technology and the reasons for their choice. Option: One or more team members may give a 5-minute presentation to the class describing the company's technology and why it was chosen. The presentation will be followed by a short class discussion. Email Larry Chasin if and when you would like to present; a Powerpoint file may be attached.

Details:

1) Find a biotech company whose biotechnology impresses you with its scientific strategy or techniques. Do not choose a company based on its ability to develop a particular individual drug; we are focusing here on biotechnology and not drugs and disease.  For instance, companies that focus on manufacturing problems rather than drug discovery would be highly appropriate, as would companies that develop general drug development methods or companies that service the research community, if they have developed a novel and useful process. Choose a company that you would like to work for, invest in, or follow. Use the Internet: Google, PubMed, Nature Biotechnology, or other biotechnology journals etc. to search. A sample company description from the past can be found here: 
( http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/w3034/Larry/HW/sample_company_description.html ).

2) Submit a written version of your description (all text), ~300-500 words, using the form below. at any time up to and including Dec. 7.  Of course, you may want to submit early if you choose to present, so that the presentation can be scheduled (only one per class). If your company has already been submitted you must choose another. Please do NOT email me your company description. I plan to publish the descriptions on the course Web site. The homework grade will be based on your rationale for choosing your company and on the written description, but not on any oral presentation, if given.  You should NOT include any information about any factors other than biotechnology that may make your company attractive (i.e., there should be NO mention of location, capitalization, management, market, mission); that is, we are focusing here on the biotechnology per se, and your 300 words should be used to focus on that aspect of the company only.  Here is a list of companies NOT allowed:

Do NOT use a company technology that has already been discussed in the lectures. Your job is to "discover" a different company.
If your company has already been chosen by anther team you will have to make another choice.
You can search for "lists of biotechnology companies" and variations on such words on Google, Wikipedia, etc..
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HW6 team	BIOTECHNOLOGY Fall 2011 BIOLW4034 sec. 001 and W3034
1	Agovino		Eric	W4034	[email protected]	Optogenetics
1	Ahn		Lisa	W4034	[email protected]	Optogenetics
1	Baier		Felix	W4034	[email protected]	Optogenetics
2	Bole		Raevti	W4034	[email protected]	Synthetic Genomics
2	Buchel		Jason	W4034	[email protected]	Synthetic Genomics
2	Castro		Veronica	W4034	[email protected]	Synthetic Genomics
3	Dendy		Meaghan	W4034	[email protected]	Oxitec
3	Kalin		Alexander	W4034	[email protected]	Oxitec
3	Kato		Niyo	W4034	[email protected]	Oxitec
4	Khobrekar		Noopur	W4034	[email protected]	Biosearch Technologies
4	Kim		Caroline	W4034	[email protected]	Biosearch Technologies
4	Kruchevsky		Natalia	W4034	[email protected]	Biosearch Technologies
5	Leon		Katerina	W4034	[email protected]	3-V Biosciences
5	Li		Yiding	W4034	[email protected]	3-V Biosciences
5	Lin		Edwin	W4034	[email protected]	3-V Biosciences
6	Lu		Yang	W4034	[email protected]	Nanosphere Inc
6	Lynch		James	W4034	[email protected]	Nanosphere Inc
6	Macri		Vincent	W4034	[email protected]	Nanosphere Inc
7	McCray		Jacqueline	W4034		Molecular Staging
7	Mou		Yufei	W4034	[email protected]	Molecular Staging
7	Nayak		Akanksha	W4034	[email protected]	Molecular Staging
8	Neufeld		Jessica	W4034	[email protected]	Ion Torrent
8	Nik		Sara	W4034	[email protected]	Ion Torrent
8	Olguin		Arturo	W4034	[email protected]	Ion Torrent
9	Pradhan		Radhika	W4034	[email protected]	TwistDX
9	Quinn		Stuart	W4034	[email protected]	TwistDX
9	Song		Ziwei	W4034	[email protected]	TwistDX
10	Strazzulla		Lauren	W4034	[email protected]	Collectis
10	Wang		Chen-Lin	W4034	[email protected]	Collectis
10	Wang		Brian	W4034	[email protected]	Collectis
11	Xu		Luyao	W4034	[email protected]	Affymetrix
11	Yozgat		Yasemin	W4034	[email protected]	Affymetrix
11	Yu		Shui	W4034	[email protected]	Affymetrix
12	Hahn		Philip	W3034	[email protected]	Geron
12	Okoro		Onyinyechi	W3034	[email protected]	Geron
12	Shyer		Justin	W3034	[email protected]	Geron

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