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Conference organizers are seeking student and postdoc volunteers to help with conference set-up, registration, and session Q&A moderation throughout the 3-day conference in exchange for access to the conference sessions when not in a volunteer role.\u00a0 All\u00a0 volunteers will need to attend a training session from 3:00 -4:00 pm on Monday, Sept 9.<\/p>\n
Volunteers needed in shifts throughout the day:<\/p>\n
Monday Sept 9: 3:00pm-5:30pm<\/p>\n
Tuesday Sept 10: 7:30am-7:00pm<\/p>\n
Wednesday Sept 11: 7:30am-2:50pm<\/p>\n
If you are interested in volunteering or learning more please complete the google form Deadline Extended to Tues, Aug 20, 2024:\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>https:\/\/forms.gle\/5ZLHi3pmrrctYoTX8<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n *Note, please fill this out so you can find out more- and we can find a way to make this work for you- we won’t hold you to the times you have indicated until we have a more formal sign-up.\u00a0 At this stage, we are just trying to gather a list of interested people to discuss details further and refine the volunteer times.<\/p>\n ** You do not have to register for the conference to volunteer in this capacity, so please ignore any registration deadlines or forms.<\/p>\n If you have questions, please email ashley.brady@vanderbilt.edu<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n About the conference:<\/strong><\/p>\n BioCentury’s 1st R&D conference: At the Academia\/Industry Interface<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Join BioCentury, biotech decision-makers and the next innovators in\u00a0Nashville Sept. 9-11, 2024<\/strong>.<\/p>\n BioCentury Grand Rounds will provide an interdisciplinary forum of top academic, investor, biotech and pharma R&D leaders that will showcase groundbreaking research, clinical insights and transformative technologies with significant commercial potential.<\/p>\n This conference, BioCentury\u2019s first dedicated R&D meeting, will focus on the most upstream part of the drug development continuum, the academia\/industry interface.<\/p>\n Grand Rounds Nashville will bring together academic innovators and physician scientists with VCs and pharmas looking for breakthrough discoveries and technologies, and provide a forum to discuss critical issues in translation. A particular goal is to give investors access to innovators they do not normally meet, and likewise enable those entrepreneurs to find avenues to commercialize their discoveries.<\/p>\n The conference will feature:<\/p>\n More information about the conference and the agenda can be found here at their live brochure:\u00a0https:\/\/media.biocentury.com\/m\/54d97b0a10a1facd\/original\/Grand-Rounds-2024-Conference-Brochure.pdf<\/a><\/p>\nby noon on Wed, August 14, 2024<\/del><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n