Benefits of ICAB Participation

Recruitment of Top Talent
In today's competitive environment, it is critical, but challenging to recruit top talent.   Our goal at BPEC is to recruit, train, and financially support outstanding engineering and science students for careers in biotechnology. We then facilitate positive interactions between our students and industrial partners, through social events, poster sessions, and sponsored internships, hoping to catalyze the start of long-term professional relationships. Trained in cross-disciplinary, team approaches to problem solving, and oriented toward a career in industry, our graduates are well-known for "hitting the ground running" in industrial and academic careers. Interviews are set up upon request.

Participation in Leading Forum
Our annual board meetings provide a forum wherein scientists and engineers, from both BPEC and leading industrial firms, work synergistically to proactively identify and address major challenges in the field. This unique forum fosters creativity, inspires breakthrough thinking and spawns wholly new approaches to longstanding problems.

Joint Project Execution and SponsoredResearch
The execution of joint projects is a key interaction between BPEC and ICAB member representatives. The basis of this interaction is the symbiosis between the industrial partner and BPEC; the projects are such that neither party alone would be able to solve the problem. Joint projects may be formed in a number of ways. Either or both parties may fund the project. The contribution from the industrial partner may be in a form other than financial committment, such as through provision of access to special equipment, software, or reagents not otherwise available to BPEC. The execution of the project may be at the industrial site, at MIT, or a combination of both. Most importantly, the key to success is the dedication and committment of both parties.

 

Administrative Management
Our BPEC Headquarters provides a "one-stop-shop" for coordination of company / BPEC interactions, including scheduling of board meetings and visits from company personnel to BPEC investigator laboratories. We also make arrangements for visiting scientist sabbaticals at MIT and student internships at industrial partners.

Rapid Communications
Our ICAB Member Representatives are provided with timely updates on science and technology developments within BPEC laboratories. Our headquarters will organize dedicated visits to MIT by our ICAB Member Representatives. We will also arrange for faculty lectures on site at our industrial partners. MIT's Technology Licensing Office is available for consultation before the execution of joint projects or sponsored research. This office has had considerable experience in the handling of patents and licenses for sponsored or joint research.

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