{"297591":{"#nid":"297591","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Healthcare Innovation and Entrepreneurship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMir Imran\u003Cbr \/\u003EFounder, Chairman and CEO\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EInCube Ventures (ICV)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA special presentation for\u0026nbsp;graduate students and postdocs of the Petit Institute bio community.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInCube Ventures is led by Mir Imran, a prolific medical innovator and company builder. Under Mir\u0027s leadership, InCube Ventures has access to ventures formed by InCube Labs - a multi-disciplinary research lab that has been a highly productive source of medical device companies. Mir and InCube Labs have formed 20 companies over the past 25 years, creating a series of multi-billion dollar markets along the way.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMir Imran founded InCube Labs to focus on his passion: creating medical solutions that change the standard of care in critical healthcare markets. After attending medical school, Mir began his career as a healthcare entrepreneur in the late 1970\u0027s and has founded numerous game-changing companies since those early days. Over the decades, he has become one of the leading inventors and entrepreneurs in the field. Mir now holds more than 200 issued patents and is perhaps most well known for his pioneering contributions to the first FDA-approved Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator. As an entrepreneur, Mir has founded more than 20 life sciences companies; 15 of his companies have seen \u0022liquidity events\u0022 (IPO\/Acquisition). Mir\u0027s expertise spans a wide range of clinical areas from interventional cardiology to chronic pain, obesity and CNS disorders. Mir actively collaborates with the nation\u0027s top universities on research and development including Stanford, Rutgers, Johns Hopkins, UTSW, etc. Mir also founded InCube Ventures, a life sciences venture fund, where he has led investments in a range of promising ventures. Mir sits on Boards of several life sciences companies. He holds an M.S. in bioengineering and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Rutgers. He also attended CMDNJ\/Rutgers Medical School.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMir Imran - Founder, Chairman and CEO, InCube Ventures (ICV) to give special presentation,\u0026nbsp;\u0022Healthcare Innovation and Entrepreneurship,\u0022 to graduate students and postdocs of the Petit Institute bio community.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Mir Imran - Founder, Chairman and CEO, InCube Ventures (ICV)"}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2014-05-15 08:02:54","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:22:34","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2014-05-22T23:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2014-05-23T00:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2014-05-23T00:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2014-05-23 03:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2014-05-23 04:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2014-05-23 04:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.incubevc.com\/","title":"InCube Ventures"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"248","name":"IBB"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:mcdevitt@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EMegan McDevitt\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}