→ LOCATION: All sessions will be held at the Millennium Student Center on UMSL's North Campus (maps) on the third floor in the Student Government Chamber (top of the escalator on your right). All receptions will be held just outside the SGA chamber in the Rotunda.

→ ATTENDANCE: Mental Health First Aid (4/21) is open to UMSL faculty, staff and students (registration is covered by the Office of Research Administration). The Grand Finale Reception is by special invitation only. All other sessions are free and open to the public.

→ SPEAKER BIOS

AGENDA

Monday, April 21

  • Mental Health First Aid

    8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (lunch provided)
    This session teaches individuals to identify and help people who are experiencing a mental health crisis and/or who may be in the early stages of developing a mental disorder. Open to UMSL faculty, staff and students. (Maximum number of attendees is 30) More Information: Email Craig Weilbaecher Registration: Click HERE to register online. Use promo code "UMSL" for your complimentary registration. (presented by the Missouri Institute of Mental Health)

Tuesday, April 22

  • Breaking Myths: Starting Up at Boeing

    Speaker: Tim Noonan, Vice President, Ventures, The Boeing Company
    Tim Noonan, Vice President of Ventures, part of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, illustrates how startups and entrepreneurs can thrive at Boeing. Noonan will share his insights on creating a culture and capability of entrepreneurship across the company and why it's vital to Boeing's future.
     11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. (lunch provided)

    ← Tim Noonan. VP, Boeing Ventures

  • Alternate Careers for Scientists: Think Outside the Lab (for graduate and undergraduate students)
    Program: 3:30 to 5 p.m.
    Pizza & Networking: 5 to 6 p.m.
    Speakers: Representatives from the FBI, an IP law firm, the BALSA Group, and the St. Louis Economic Development Partnership will discuss alternate career choices for scientists who want to utilize their expertise outside of the laboratory.

Kathleen Chaffee, Ph.D. (chemistry), Patent Agent, Dentons. She used her doctoral degree in chemistry to join the legal profession.

John Flick, B.S. (mechanical engineering), M.S. (aerospace engineering). The FBI uses cutting-edge science to solve cases and prevent acts of crime and terror.

Brett Maricque, President, The Biotechnology and Life Science Advising (BALSA) Group; graduate student, computational and systems biology at WU. BALSA provides short-term consulting services to companies ranging from startups to large corporations.

Travis Sheridan, Assistant Vice President, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, St. Louis Economic Development Partnership (STLPartnership). He is passionate about entrepreneurship as a driver for economic development and is well-connected to startup resources in the St. Louis region.

Wednesday, April 23

  • The Double Life of Academic Entrepreneurs

3 to 4:30 p.m. (followed by a special presentation by Tom Sclhafly and a reception)

Some faculty  (and  students) lead a double life to get important research discoveries to market. Hear from several successful academic entrepreneurs about balancing a successful startup company launch and an academic career or pursuing a degree. See speakers in the chart below.

    • Special Presentation by Tom Schlafly
      Lawyer as Entrepreneur: The Story of Schlafly Beer

3 to 4:30 p.m.

Tom Schlafly and Dan Kopman founded The Saint Louis Brewery in 1991, when the company received the first microbrewery license issued by the State of Missouri.  In 2008 Schlafly became the largest American-owned brewery in St. Louis, when InBev purchased Anheuser-Busch.  In 2013 Schlafly became the largest American-owned brewery in Missouri, when Boulevard Brewery from Kansas City was acquired by a Belgian brewery.  Schlafly is now the 44th largest craft brewer in the United States.

Tom Schlafly will tell the story of Schlafly Beer from its early days as a brewpub at the western edge of Downtown St. Louis to where it is today, selling beer in 15 states, including several on the East Coast.  After his formal remarks he will entertain questions from the audience.

    • Reception: 5 to 6 p.m.

Pictured left, from left, UMSL's Dr. Wes Harris, professor and associate dean of the Graduate School, and Dr. Chris Spilling, professor and chair, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, will discuss their role in launching Alkymos Inc. in collaboration with co-investigators from the University of Kentucky.
(Pictured left) Roger Chamberlain, professor and director of Computer Engineering Programs at Washington University, teaches in the areas of digital systems, parallel processing, computer architecture, embedded systems and reconfigurable logic. He currently works with Exegy Inc., a St. Louis firm he and three other WU professors helped establish to commercialize university technology for fast disk searches. Today Exegy provides products and services to firms in the financial services industry.
(Pictured left, from left) Dr. Sheila Grant, professor, Biological Engineering, MU, is a founder and CTO of EternoGen and the principal inventor of the NanoMatrix technology around which the company was established. EternoGen focuses on tissue repair and regenerative medicine; and Luis R. Jimenez, President and COO, EternoGen.
Matthew MacEwan, founder, president and CSO of Retectix LLC located at UMSL's ITE incubator in St. Louis. By 30 years of age, he had already invented two medical devices -- a surgical mesh that speeds healing and a titanium hardware that promotes bone growth in the spine. He has also served as mentor for an UMSL graduate student startup company and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering and an M.D. with clinical specialization in neurosurgery at Washington University.

 Tom Schlafly, co-founded The Saint Louis Brewery, which produces Schlafly beers. He received his A.B. and J.D. from Georgetown University. He is also an attorney, working as a partner in the St. Louis office of Thompson Coburn.

Thursday, April 24

  • Research Seminar: Megatrends in the Health Care Marketplace

    Dr Susan Feigenbaum, Professor of Economics, UMSL
    11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. (lunch provided)

 ← Dr. Susan Feigenbaum

Friday, April 25

  • Research Seminar: Looking at the Affordable Care Act from a Policy Perspective

    Dr Joseph Parks, Director, MO HealthNet Division of the Missouri Department of Social Services; and Distinguished Research Professor, UMSL
    12:30 to 2 p.m. (lunch provided)

 ← Dr. Joseph Parks

  • Grand Finale Reception

    (by special invitation only)

    Wrapping up Research & Innovation Week will be a reception at the MSC (3rd floor) to recognize and celebrate all the innovative researchers and inventors at UMSL. We will announce the winners of the Researchers of the Year and Inventors of the Year awards, induct new members into the UMSL chapter of the National Academy of Inventors, and offer a fun evening of food, beverages, music and networking. Also joining us for a short presentation will be David Karandish, CEO of St. Louis-based Answers, which operates the Answers.com website.

    4 p.m.: Registration, appetizers and beverages

    4:30 to 5:30 p.m.: Program

    5:30 to 8 p.m.: Reception

← David Karandish, CEO, Answers