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Life Sciences Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Certificate Awarded: Advanced Graduate Certificate in Life Sciences Innovation & Entrepreneurship

The Advanced Graduate Certificate (AGC) in Life Sciences Innovation and Entrepreneurship (LiSIE) is a collaboration between Stony Brook University's Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Business, and Center for Biotechnology. The AGC is granted after completing a four-course program that prepares students to translate science into therapeutics, diagnostics, and/or medical devices. Students learn fundamentals of business, finance, regulatory affairs, market need, and due-diligence necessary for leveraging technology into bioscience-oriented start-up companies, business ventures, or products in established companies. After completion of the LiSIE certificate, students can apply business strategies to innovations emerging from their own work, laboratories, incubators, and/or university community and prepare themselves for a broader range of career opportunities (e.g., intellectual property law, investment and financial analysis, business development, regulatory, and entrepreneurial activities).

Certificate Requirements

To receive the Advanced Graduate Certificate in Life Sciences Innovations and Entrepreneurship, a student must complete four courses (two core courses and two technical electives), with at least a B grade in each course.

Core Courses

• BME 509 - Fundamentals of the Bioscience Industry 3 credits
• BME 511 - BioTechnology Enterprises 2: Products & Markets 3 credits OR
• BUS 510 - Biotechnology Enterprises - Finance & Operations 3 credits

Technical Electives

Choose 2 courses for 6 credits, under advisement from the certificate Director. Foundational courses from the primary degree (MS or PhD) program qualify as AGC electives. Consult the certificate Director for specific information.

• Example Technical Electives Include
  • BGE 510 - Graduate Genetics 3 credits
  • BME 501 - Engineering Principles in Cell Biology 3 credits
  • BME 502 - Advanced Numerical & Computation Analysis Applied to Biological Systems 3 credits
  • CHE 541 - Biomolecular Structure and Analysis 3 credits
  • CHE 542 - Chemical Biology 3 credits
  • HBH 631 - Graduate Pharmacology I 3 credits
  • HBH 632 - Graduate Pharmacology II 0-3 credits
  • HBM 640 - Molecular Mechanisms of Microbial Pathogenesis 3-4 credits
  • HBP 533 - Immunology 3 credits
  • HBY 530 - Cellular Physiology and Biophysics 1-3 credits
  • MCB 503 - Molecular Genetics 3 credits *
  • NEU 501 - Introduction to Neuroscience Research 3 credits
  • NEU 502 - Reading, Writing, and Speaking Neurobiology 2 credits