OCED Carolina Innovations Seminar
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Room #014, Sitterson Hall
5:30-6:30 p.m.
Reception to follow at Top of the Hill Restaurant and Brewery

Speaker: Don Rose, Director, KickStart Venture Services
Title: Presenting Research to Revenue: A Practical Guide to University Start-Ups

Don Rose, together with Cam Patterson, has recently published a book about university start-up companies. Don will discuss the experiences that led him to write the book and provide valuable experiential insights about starting companies. 

Don Rose, Ph.D.  Don Rose is Director of UNC’s KickStart Venture Services, an entrepreneurial technology commercialization program in the Office of Commercialization and Economic Development. In addition, he is an Adjunct Professor at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. Prior to that, he held senior leadership roles at a number of life science startups:  Metabolon (metabolomics, RTP), Deerac Fluidics (nanoliter dispensing, Dublin), and DataCentric Automation (high-throughput crystallography, Nashville).  Before that, he was a general partner with Catalysta Partners (now Hatteras Venture Partners), a seed stage venture fund specializing in information technology and biotechnology start-ups. During this time, Don was co-founder and CEO of Phase Bioscience, a biomaterials start-up, spun out of Duke University.   Prior to Catalysta, he was co-founder and VP of Research and Development for Cartesian Technologies, a leader in instrumentation for DNA microarrays and nanoliter dispensing.  Prior to Cartesian, Dr. Rose was a research scientist at Glaxo Wellcome (now GSK) where he developed and promoted a number of technologies in bioanalytical chemistry, combinatorial chemistry and high-throughput screening. Prior to GW, Dr. Rose developed various aspects of capillary electrophoreses instrumentation at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories.  Dr. Rose received his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry and BS in Nutrition from the University of North Carolina.  He has published eight papers, two book chapters, and holds six US patents.