Singapore-MIT Alliance
Summer Conference 2002
The 2002 Summer Conference begins with a two–day Pre–Immersion session. See below for the Pre–Immersion agenda, and biographies of speakers for this event.
The Entrepreneurship Session (Pre-Immersion) was held at Wong Auditorium, Tang Center (E-51)
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Speaker
Professor Charles Cooney Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Director of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation
Abstract "Ideas, Invention, Innovation and Implementation — An academic paradigm"
University research is an essential part of the foundation on which new companies are built. This comes in part because of the open environment of the academic community in which innovative thought is rewarded, failure is accepted as a starting point for another try and progress is measured by a stream of educated students and post doc's. The university role is the technology supply chain that supports formation and growth of innovative companies is especially clear in biotechnology where many early scientific discoveries have been converted into technology and commercial reality. Using examples from the successful growth of the biotech industry to illustrate the role in the recent creation of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation seeks to enhance this model and accelerate the transformation of ideas to implementation.
Biography Charles L. Cooney is Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, and the Faculty Director of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, and Co-Director of the Program on the Pharmaceutical Industry at MIT, Cambridge, MA. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966. His Master's degree and Ph.D. degree in Biochemical Engineering are from MIT in 1967, and 1970, respectively. After working briefly at the Squibb Institute for Medical Research, he joined the faculty of MIT as an Assistant Professor in 1970, and as a full Professor since 1982. He received the 1989 Gold Medal of the Institute of Biotechnological Studies (London), the Food, Pharmaceutical and Bioengineering Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the James Van Lanen Distinguished Service Award from the American Chemical Society's Division of Microbial and Biochemical Technology and was elected to the American Institute of Medical and Biochemical Engineers. Recently, Professor Cooney was appointed Co–Director of the Singapore MIT Initiative for establishing an Innovation and Technopreneurship effort between several major Universities in Singapore and the Engineering and Sloan Schools at MIT. He serves as a consultant to and/or director of a number of Biotech and Pharmaceutical companies and is on several editorial boards of professional journals.
Charles Cooney's research interests span a range of topics in biochemical engineering and pharmaceutical manufacturing. He has particular interest in computer control of biological processes, downstream processing for recovery of biological products, and bioreactor design and operation. At the present time, some of the activities of his research group include the use of computer-aided design (CAD) techniques in biochemical flowsheet synthesis, the application of expert systems to enhance process control of bioreactors, the fundamentals of absorption and filtration in downstream processing, and the use of genetic engineering to solve process problems, and the application of benchmarking to measure performance in pharmaceutical manufacturing. A central philosophy underlying research in his laboratory is the use of a multidisciplinary approach to the development of advanced manufacturing technologies for the biochemical process industry.
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