{"612333":{"#nid":"612333","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Need Funding for Your Technology? Lunch \u0026 Learn Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026ldquo;NSF\u0026rsquo;s Medical Diagnostics Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nHenry Ahn\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSBIR\/STTR Program Director\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nNational Science Foundation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHenry Ahn joined the National Science Foundation in July 2016 as an SBIR\/STTR Program Director. Prior to joining NSF, Ahn managed seed\/early stage investment programs for TEDCO for 12 years including Technology Commercialization Fund, TEDCO\u0026rsquo;s flagship seed funding program for technology-based companies in Maryland. During his time at TEDCO, he was actively involved with various entrepreneurs and entrepreneur support groups as a guest speaker, an advisory board member, a judge, a mentor, among others. Additionally, Ahn was part of the licensing\/supplier relations team at a biotechnology company called Upstate, where he successfully negotiated, licensed and commercialized approximately 190 biomedical research reagents from around the world. He has also done approximately 5 years of research, mostly in the field of immunology (including graduate work). Ahn has an M.B.A. from Rice University, an M.S. in biotechnology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and a B.S. in biomedical engineering from Boston University.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cem\u003ELunch provided.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u201cNSF\u2019s Medical Diagnostics Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program\u201d - Henry Ahn, National Science Foundation"}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2018-10-04 16:16:57","changed_gmt":"2018-10-04 20:15:10","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2018-10-19T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2018-10-19T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2018-10-19T14:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2018-10-19 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2018-10-19 18:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2018-10-19 18:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/venturelab.gatech.edu\/","title":"VentureLab website"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"},{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"248","name":"IBB"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:hsolomon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EHarold Solomon\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cynthia.sundell@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECynthia Sundell\u003C\/a\u003E, GT VentureLab\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}