Perspective by Mitchell McBrairty MBA Candidate, Class of 2021 During the Fall 2020 semester, I had the wonderful opportunity to take the CBLS course, X519 – The life sciences industry from research to patient. This class took a deep dive into each step of the healthcare value chain, featuring speakers on a wide range of… Read more »
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2020 MBA Life Science Students Reflect on Internship Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Interviews by Mitchell McBrairty MBA Candidate, Class of 2021 Anna Hung Previous Industry, Employer, and Role: Before my MBA I worked in marketing operations for magAssist, a startup developing an extracorporeal artificial heart. Where did you intern with this summer? Which program and/or functional area were you a part of? Novartis; I interned in… Read more »
Indiana Life Sciences Conference Focuses on Digital Health
Digital Health: Telemedicine and Virtual Clinical Trials November 12-13, 2020 Virtual Conference For the past several years, the use of digital technology has begun spreading within healthcare and the life sciences. COVID-19 has greatly accelerated the progress. This conference will focus on how two areas of digital health, telemedicine and virtual clinical trials, were… Read more »
The Future of The Affordable Care Act After Justice Ginsburg’s Death
Inside Indiana Business, Sept. 28, 2020 By Taryn Stone and Kevin Woodhouse, Kelley Center for the Business of Life Sciences Industry Advisory Board member Given her health problems over the past several months, it was not surprising that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg finally succumbed to these challenges, but the news of her death… Read more »
CBLS Welcomes Eli Lilly as Featured Guest for Fall Student Reception
Tuesday, October 6th 5:30- 7:30pm The Kelley Center for the Business of Life Sciences invites students across campus to join for a virtual information and networking reception featuring Eli Lilly and company. Feel like you are walking the halls at Lilly with their virtual open house! After an opening presentation about the Certificate in the… Read more »
MBA Students Survive and Thrive in Summer Internships Despite COVID-19
By Mitchell McBrairty Kelley MBA Candidate, Class of 2021 As the summer comes to a close and classes are starting again, I connected with six 2nd year MBA students from the Plus Life Science Academy to learn more about their internship experience. Here is the first of two updates. Geervani Koneti Previous Industry, Employer,… Read more »
Indiana CTSI Cores and IU Kelley School of Business collaborate for success
August 20, 2020 By Anna Carrera CTSI Press Release The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) features dozens of cores offering services to researchers across the state, and a new opportunity will be opening soon to enhance business plans through a collaboration with the IU Kelley School of Business. This program has been available… Read more »
CBLS Alumna Linya “Leah” Liu Helps Launch Kickstarter Project to Provide Remote Healthcare During COVID-19
By Linya Liu Kelley BEPP ’19 | Penn MSSP ’21 | Health IoT Startup Campaign Project Lead Excerpt from Penn SP2 News by Alina Ladyzhensky Linya, who goes by Leah, completed her Certificate in the Business of Life Sciences through the Kelley School’s Center for the Business of Life Sciences in 2019. Linya earned a Bachelor of Science… Read more »
Plugged into the Matrix: My Virtual Internship Experience at Bristol Myers Squibb
By Mitchell McBrairty Kelley MBA Candidate, Class of 2021 One of my favorite films of all time is The Matrix. Watching Neo question reality, choose between the blue and red pills, and discover inner truths about himself is a mind-bending experience. It’s almost as if you leave a different person than you started after watching… Read more »
How a CBLS Course Can Prepare You for A Career in The Life Sciences
By Mitchell McBrairty, MBA Candidate Class of 2021 The courses in the CBLS remind me of a classic joke that pokes fun at each functional area within a business. Ask each one “What is Pi?” and you’ll get a different answer: The Engineer: The circumference of a circle divided by its diameter (well… technically that… Read more »