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Sharing best practices for educational programs on venture creation and commercialization

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Longitudinal evaluation of the Biomedical Entrepreneurship Educational Program suggests the program successfully educates and inspires the next generation of life science and biotechnology innovators.

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Fig. 1: Post-FBS course respondents, student impact.
Fig. 2: Post-FBS course respondents, impressions of course content: usefulness of FBS course sessions, post-participation.
Fig. 3: Post-FBS course respondents, indications for rollout (level, modality, lecturers): suitability and target audience.
Fig. 4: Post-FBS course respondents, indications for rollout (level, modality, lecturers): ideas regarding design and delivery.
Fig. 5: Key knowledge gained from TPCVD: Purdue University 2022.

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This program was supported by NIDDK R25 (DK119114), the Biomedical Entrepreneurship Skills Development Program for the Advancement of Research Translation (PI: G.G.-v.S.); NCATS 5UL1TR001445 Clinical and Translational Science Award (principal investigators B. Cronstein, J. Hochman); and NIDDK T35 (DK007421), the Short-Term Research Training Grant for Medical Students (principal investigator R. Ramasamy).

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    Jordan Eidlisz, Zachary Hill-Whilton, Gabriel Vizgan, Daniel Cobos, Sadhana Chitale, Colleen Gillespie & Gabrielle Gold-von Simson

  2. SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, Brooklyn, NY, USA

    Jordan Eidlisz & Gabriel Vizgan

  3. International Society for Cardiovascular Translational Research, Phoenix, AZ, USA

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Supplementary Data 1

2021–2022 FBS longitudinal survey

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2019–2020 FBS longitudinal survey

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2021–2022 TPCVD longitudinal survey

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2022 Purdue TPCVD survey

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Eidlisz, J., Hill-Whilton, Z., Vizgan, G. et al. Sharing best practices for educational programs on venture creation and commercialization. Nat Biotechnol 42, 675–681 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02199-y

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