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Silver Sponsor, 2017-2020
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Lisa Mendoza, Associate Director, Open Innovation
West Coast Innovation Center, Bayer
Dr. Lisa Mendoza is Associate Director with Bayer’s R&D partnering organization located in San Francisco at Bayer’s West Coast Innovation Center. Dr. Mendoza has identified and pursued partnerships with academic and biotech researchers focused on novel therapeutics of strategic interest to Bayer with a primary focus in cardiology and vascular disease. She has managed strategic alliances focused in benign hematology and Cardio-pulmonary indications and negotiated several master agreements for research collaborations. Most recently, the Alliance with University of Pittsburgh focused in Cardio-pulmonary research was launched in late 2016.
Dr. Mendoza’s responsibilities also include search and evaluation in the US for new therapies in Cardiology, Oncology, Gynecological Therapies and Hemostatic Disorders as well as drug discovery enabling technologies. She supports the company’s incubator space adjacent to Bayer’s Innovation Center, the CoLaborator launched in 2012, to engage and cultivate start-up life sciences companies aligned with Bayer’s interests. In this capacity she has interacted with many emerging biotech and advised on the development of companies as part of the relationship that Bayer’s West Coast Innovation Center has with QB3 and UCSF.
Prior to her role in partnering and alliance management with Bayer, Lisa has had various leadership roles on both small molecule and biologic drug discovery in the field of autoimmunity, resulting in several peer-reviewed journal publications and an Investigational New Drug submission. Lisa spent the first part of her professional career at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Immunology Division of the Molecular Cell Biology department and received her Ph. D. from the University of California in San Diego.
West Coast Innovation Center, Bayer
Dr. Lisa Mendoza is Associate Director with Bayer’s R&D partnering organization located in San Francisco at Bayer’s West Coast Innovation Center. Dr. Mendoza has identified and pursued partnerships with academic and biotech researchers focused on novel therapeutics of strategic interest to Bayer with a primary focus in cardiology and vascular disease. She has managed strategic alliances focused in benign hematology and Cardio-pulmonary indications and negotiated several master agreements for research collaborations. Most recently, the Alliance with University of Pittsburgh focused in Cardio-pulmonary research was launched in late 2016.
Dr. Mendoza’s responsibilities also include search and evaluation in the US for new therapies in Cardiology, Oncology, Gynecological Therapies and Hemostatic Disorders as well as drug discovery enabling technologies. She supports the company’s incubator space adjacent to Bayer’s Innovation Center, the CoLaborator launched in 2012, to engage and cultivate start-up life sciences companies aligned with Bayer’s interests. In this capacity she has interacted with many emerging biotech and advised on the development of companies as part of the relationship that Bayer’s West Coast Innovation Center has with QB3 and UCSF.
Prior to her role in partnering and alliance management with Bayer, Lisa has had various leadership roles on both small molecule and biologic drug discovery in the field of autoimmunity, resulting in several peer-reviewed journal publications and an Investigational New Drug submission. Lisa spent the first part of her professional career at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Immunology Division of the Molecular Cell Biology department and received her Ph. D. from the University of California in San Diego.
Past sponsors:
Corporate Accelerator Forum Participants, 2017-2020
Advamed
AGC Glass North America
Alexandria
Applied Materials
AT&T Aspire
BD
Bayer CoLaborator
Boomtown Boulder
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Cambridge Design Partnership
Carnegie Mellon University
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
Citrix Startup Accelerator (former)
Corning
DuPont
Eastman
Eli Lilly and Company
Google
Gore Innovation Center
Hitachi
IDEO CoLab
Illumina Accelerator
Innovators Program Raleigh (Red Hat/Citrix)
Institute for the Future
Institute for the Global Entrepreneur, UCSD
Johnson & Johnson Innovation, JLabs
Kaiser Permanente
Kauffman Fellows
Larta Institute
Lonza
Magnify Incubator (UCLA California Nanosystems Institute)
NC RIoT Accelerator
MedTech Innovator
Merck
Mesh Academy, USC
MISTA (Givaudan)
Nordic Innovation House
Novartis
Novozymes, Inc.
Paideia Enterprises
Renault/Nissan/Mitsubishi
Silicon Valley Bank
Techstars
TMC Innovation
Toggle Labs
University Lab Partners
Venture Toolkit
Advamed
AGC Glass North America
Alexandria
Applied Materials
AT&T Aspire
BD
Bayer CoLaborator
Boomtown Boulder
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Cambridge Design Partnership
Carnegie Mellon University
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
Citrix Startup Accelerator (former)
Corning
DuPont
Eastman
Eli Lilly and Company
Gore Innovation Center
Hitachi
IDEO CoLab
Illumina Accelerator
Innovators Program Raleigh (Red Hat/Citrix)
Institute for the Future
Institute for the Global Entrepreneur, UCSD
Johnson & Johnson Innovation, JLabs
Kaiser Permanente
Kauffman Fellows
Larta Institute
Lonza
Magnify Incubator (UCLA California Nanosystems Institute)
NC RIoT Accelerator
MedTech Innovator
Merck
Mesh Academy, USC
MISTA (Givaudan)
Nordic Innovation House
Novartis
Novozymes, Inc.
Paideia Enterprises
Renault/Nissan/Mitsubishi
Silicon Valley Bank
Techstars
TMC Innovation
Toggle Labs
University Lab Partners
Venture Toolkit