Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen
Women’s Entrepreneurship Fund
Established with a generous gift from the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation and other leadership supporters, the Kellen Women’s Entrepreneurship Fund (Kellen WEF) is designed to help ensure that women scientists at Rockefeller have the training, resources, and funding to explore the clinical applications of their scientific discoveries.
The Kellen Women’s Entrepreneurship Fund aims to:
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- Increase the participation of women in Rockefeller’s translational ecosystem through a competitive grants program to fund projects headed by women researchers
- Encourage women scientists to explore the entrepreneurial ecosystem beyond the bench through a speaker series with women leaders in biotechnology, pharma, and venture capital
- Build a network of industry leaders who can mentor and advise Rockefeller women scientists
- Establish Rockefeller as the place where women scientists at all levels receive best-in-practice entrepreneurship training
For more information on the Kellen WEF, please email was@rockefeller.edu
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THE ANNA-MARIA AND STEPHEN KELLEN FOUNDATION ENDOWS THE WOMEN’S ENTREPRENEURSHIP FUND AT THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY
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Previous Kellen WEF Speaker Series Programs
December 2, 2021
Video
PATHWAYS IN BIOSCIENCE: FOUR PERSPECTIVES BEYOND THE BENCH
Host:
Karen Akinsanya, Ph.D.
EVP, Chief Biomedical Scientist,
and Head of R&D
Schrödinger
Rockefeller University Trustee
Panelists:
Leigh Baxt, Ph.D.
Associate Director of Biology
Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute
Jeanne Farrell, Ph.D.
Associate Vice President
Office of Technology Transfer
Rockefeller University
Jessica Hopfield, Ph.D. ’91
Healthcare Strategist and Investor
President, J Hopfield Consulting
March 24, 2021
Demystifying the Therapeutic Development Ecosystem: A Roadmap of What You Need to Know
Speaker:
Brandy Houser, Ph.D.
NYC Site Head, Celdara Medical
Co-Founder
Traverse Biotech, Women Accelerators and Fiddlehead Foundation
Hosted by:
Agata Smogorzewska, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Laboratory of Genome Maintenance
Rockefeller University
December 2, 2020
Video
CONVERSATIONS WITH WOMEN LEADERS IN BIOSCIENCE
Inaugural Speaker:
Karen Akinsanya, Ph.D.
EVP, Chief Biomedical Scientist,
and Head of R&D
Schrödinger
In Conversation with:
Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D.
Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor
Robin Chemers Neustein Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development
Rockefeller University
