Yali Friedman, Ph.D., is founder of thinkBiotech. His book, Building
Biotechnology, is used as a course text in dozens of
biotechnology programs. His other books include
Best Practices in Biotechnology Education and Best
Practices in Biotechnology Business Development.Dr. Friedman is also managing editor of the Journal of Commercial Biotechnology, a member of the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Medical Marketing and served on the Biotechnology Journal editorial advisory board. He is also a member of the board of directors and steering group of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies, serves on the science advisory board of Chakra Biotech, and has also served as a judge for the Biotech Humanitarian Award and the Maryland Incubator Company of the Year Award.
Dr. Friedman also has strong exposure to leading issues in international biotechnology. He served as lead editorial consultant for Scientific American's worldVIEW, a global biotechnology perspective profiling biotechnology industries and opportunities in 36 countries, and has been invited to participate in biotechnology industry development forums for APEC and for individual countries such as Canada, Germany, the Philippines, and Turkey.
Dr. Friedman teaches biotechnology management at the National Institutes of Health and regularly guest-lectures for other biotechnology education programs, and writes and speaks on diverse topics such as biotechnology entrepreneurship, strategies to cope with a lack of management talent and capital when developing companies outside of established hubs, and new paradigms in technology-based economic development.
Dr. Friedman has a long history in biotechnology media, having created a Forbes "Best of the Web"-rated web site on the biotechnology industry for a NY Times company and managed it for many years. His other projects include the Student Guide to DNA Based Computers, sponsored by FUJI Television, BiotechBlog.com, and DrugPatentWatch.com, a pharmaceutical industry competitive intelligence service based on a business plan that was awarded second place in the Panasci Entrepreneurial Awards Competition.
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