9-808-064 REV: OCTOBER 21, 2010 PRICHARD G. HAMERMESH LAUREN BARLEY De ermaCa Zap are: pping Z Dir Zits rectly It w a rainy Saturday mor was S rning in late N November 20 005, and Pete Scocimara p er pulled on his Croc s shoes to take his rambunctiou golden ret us triever Jasper for a walk. Walking the dog would give r e d Scocim mara some much-needed time to clear his head an prepare fo a Monday m r nd or y-morning me eeting with the cofounders of his co ompany, Der rmaCare, Inc Headquarte c. ered in Live ermore, California, Derm maCare was a start-up ven nture that pla anned to mar rket its Therm maClear acne e-treatment d device direct to consum tly mers using dire response t ect …show more content…
ght resident and Fellow of Harvard Coll ws lege. To order copie or request perm es mission to reproduc materials, call 1-8 ce 800-545Copyrig © 2007, 2010 Pr 7685, wr Harvard Busin rite ness School Publish hing, Boston, MA 0 02163, or go to http://www.hbsp.harv vard.edu. No part of this publication may be n reprodu uced, stored in a retrieval system, used in a spread dsheet, or transmit tted in any form or by any mean ns—electronic, mec chanical, photoco opying, recording, or otherwise—with o hout the permission of Harvard Busin n ness School. 808-064 DermaCare: Zapping Zits Directly DermaCare Cofounders Luiz Da Silva Da Silva, a native of Canada, received a PhD in physics from the University of British Columbia in 1988. Soon thereafter, Da Silva moved to California for the opportunity to work with “the world’s most powerful laser” at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). By 1997, Da Silva was ready for a new challenge. He and his boss then started the medical technology program at LLNL, and Da Silva explained his role as its associate program director: Our mission was to take technology and patents developed at the lab and transfer them to the medical industry. My first experience was to pitch some technology the lab had for treating strokes. We visited some VCs, and eventually a group of VCs found a CEO and formed a startup to license and commercialize our technology. I was the
With my experience and knowledge, I was promoted to the position of coordinator and in charge of imaging informatics (PACS administrator). Under the tutelage of my Director, I learned valuable leadership skills. I began doing some training and administrative duties coupled with intermittent clinical work. This position has also awakened my desire to pursue my graduate education and acquire a solid background I so desire to shape my interest in healthcare and computer
In 1965 Wilkins was promoted, first to assistant director of the John Jay Hopkins Laboratory, then to director of the Defense Science and Engineering Center, and finally to director of Computational Research. Being as busy bodied as Wilkins was, he moved to Howard University in Washington, D.C., as a professor of Applied Mathematical Physics leaving General Dynamics in 1970.
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At 29 I released 4 apps at one time . I created everything about them down to the features and UI . I raised over 5 million by myself no VC , no guidance , just me and investors who helped me find other investors that they knew. Also all my investors are African American except for one minority owner.
B. Gardner got a job as a medical research associate for a scientific supply distributer.
Well, we all know the flourishing of the Maker Movement which launched by Dale Dougherty.
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Experiences often have a noticeable impact on potential career paths, and I am no exception. I spent a major portion of my recent summer interning at Sanford Health, a local hospital, with Sanford Vascular Innovations, a research group located within the hospital. As part of my internship, I became involved in the patent process for novel medical devices and observed live surgery, both state-of-the-art and timeless, to increase my understanding. Observing the live surgeries provided me with a more knowledgeable position from which to write a background of current medical treatments for the novel medical devices. Even though the specific medical devices were not in the trial phase, just observing the operations afforded me a greater understanding of how the device could be used and where potential complications could occur. Performing the actual surgery would provide even more insight into how medical devices are used and where complication may occur.
During my experience at Asterand Bioscience in Detroit I learned about the daily activities of laboratory assistants. This experience has helped me prepare for future labs which I will do in college and hopefully in my future career. Having working in the lab and learning the new technologies of DNA/RNA isolation it has changed my outlook on pharmacists and how they use the DNA segments and gel electrophoresis to find new ways to cure diseases and find out the genes involved. I shadowed Jean Mackenzie for 17 hours during my stay at Asterand Bioscience; I enjoyed her guidance during the labs. Jean also showed me behind the scenes of the company, I was able to go to meetings and file through paper work in order to have “Tissue Tumor” be delivered.
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I am bringing together strong and talented people in those field to found a business and later turn it, into a company.
I also read the thesis of a PhD student who had completed a 6 month placement at the company and learned about funding methods for research. The third placement was at a doctor’s surgery, where I sat in on clinics, which allowed me to see another aspect of Biology and the real life implications of important biological research in areas such as diabetes and issues the of the
Albert Bandura was born on December 4, 1925 in a small town in the province of Alberta, Canada. He attended a small high school that had only twenty students and only two teachers. Bandura received his B.A at the University of British Columbia in 1949 and received his doctorate at the University of Iowa in 1952. He
The first company I talked to was actually by accident and that was Penske the moving truck company. I was scouring the map for companies that offered internships for human sciences and was having little success when all of the sudden I heard a voice say "Looking for a job, Ethan?". I was startled when I heard this and I
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