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SUMMARY:Fireside Chat with Mike Curry\, Co-founder\, Life After Prison
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fireside chat with Mike Curry\, Co-founder and Executive Director\, Life After Prison. \nMike Curry\, a native of the Dorchester section of Boston\, has always had a natural talent for writing. He is the author of the compelling “3 Pounds of Pressure” series\, which vividly portrays life growing up in the inner-city of Boston. \nIn addition to his writing career\, Mike is also a dedicated business mentor and coach. He thrives off of organizing\, strategic planning and executing. However\, his true passion lies in helping individuals who have been incarcerated to rebuild their lives and reintegrate into society. He firmly believes in providing support and guidance to returning citizens\, allowing them to regain their footing and create a brighter future. \nThis is an Inside the Classroom event hosted by Professor Moneer Azzam at Tufts\, who teaches ENT100 Entrepreneurship and Business Planning.
URL:https://derbyecenter.tufts.edu/event/fireside-chat-mike-curry/
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Innovation Month: Activate Fellowship Virtual Info Session
DESCRIPTION:Scientists and engineers have world-changing discoveries sitting in labs right now—but most don’t yet have the time\, money\, or support to fully commit to bringing them to market. \nThat’s exactly what the Activate Fellowship provides. \nIn this virtual webinar\, you’ll hear: \n\nAn overview of the Activate Fellowship and its benefits\nHow the Derby Center and Auster Center support early-stage science entrepreneurs\nTips for preparing a strong application — plus live Q&A\nInsights from current Activate Fellows and Tufts alumni Michael Saad and Sophie Letcher of EntoCellular\n\nEntoCellular won 1st place in the Healthcare & Life Sciences track of the 2025 Tufts New Ventures Competition\, is a Tufts Venture Accelerator alum team\, and completed NSF I-Corps with the Auster Center for Applied Innovation and Research. \nActivate is the premier program for scientists on a mission. The two-year fellowship provides early-stage hard tech science entrepreneurs $100K in research funding\, a yearly living stipend of up to $100K\, intensive entrepreneurial training\, mentorship\, networking\, and more—at no cost\, with no equity taken. Applications close October 30. \nWhether you’re a potential applicant or just curious\, this session cohosted by the Auster Center for Applied Innovation and Research and the Derby Entrepreneurship Center at Tufts will help you explore how to get involved and support deep-tech innovation. \nLearn more about the Auster Center for Applied Innovation and Research at austercenter.tufts.edu.\nLearn more about Derby Entrepreneurship Center at derbyecenter.tufts.edu.\nLearn more about Activate at https://activate.org/.
URL:https://derbyecenter.tufts.edu/event/activate-infosession/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Innovation month,Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Innovation Month: Hybrid Event - From PhD to Founder: Building (and Selling) a Startup
DESCRIPTION:From lab bench to boardroom: what does it actually take to build (and sell) a biotech company? Join us for a fireside chat with Kristina Fontanez\, PhD — a two-time founder who scaled her last startup\, Fluent BioSciences\, from 2 to 40+ employees\, raised $19M+\, and led it to an $85M acquisition by Illumina. Now she’s building Adept Scientific\, an AI platform tackling a problem she saw firsthand: life science labs have no real-time visibility into how their products actually perform. \nWhether you’re curious about science\, startups\, or the leap between academia and industry\, come hear how Kristina turned a research gap into a growing company — and bring your questions. \nPizza served at 5:30pm\, talk starts at 6:00pm. \nAbout Kristina Fontanez \nAdept Scientific is led by founder and CEO Kristina Fontanez\, PhD (Princeton AB\, Harvard PhD\, MIT postdoc). Kristina co-founded Fluent BioSciences\, scaling the team from 2 to 40+ employees\, launching 7 commercial products\, and raising $19M+ in funding. She played a pivotal leadership role in securing the company’s $85M acquisition by Illumina in 2024. Throughout her tenure at Fluent and later as Senior Director at Illumina\, Kristina identified a systemic gap: life science companies lacked real-time visibility into product performance in customer labs. Support was anecdotal\, field engineers didn’t scale\, and product teams flew blind. This firsthand operator experience\, spanning R&D\, commercialization\, manufacturer economics\, and post-acquisition integration is exactly why she’s building Adept: an AI-powered platform designed to provide the “Google Maps” for lab workflows\, finally closing the visibility gap in life sciences. \nThis Innovation Month event is jointly hosted by Auster Center for Applied Innovation and Research and Derby Entrepreneurship Center at Tufts.  \nLearn more about the Auster Center: austercenter.tufts.edu\nLearn more about the Derby Entrepreneurship Center: derbyecenter.tufts.edu.
URL:https://derbyecenter.tufts.edu/event/entspeaker-kristinafontanez/
LOCATION:JCC 1st floor\, 177 College Avenue\, Medford\, MA\, 02155\, United States
CATEGORIES:Innovation month,Speaker Series
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