Event
ZAP! A 2-Part Course for USC Entrepreneurs
Health Science Campus NTT 4444
Are you starting a company in the healthcare space, or thinking of starting one? Do you want support in this process? Participate in ZAP!, the program that has successfully enabled 26 teams to get $50,000 customer discovery grants from the National Science Foundation!
Event Details
What is ZAP?
ZAP! is based on the successful National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps) methods of accelerating the translation of university research to the marketplace. If you complete ZAP!, you will be invited to IN-LA’s Technology Scouting Workshop, an opportunity to pitch to investors, and may move forward in the IN-LA process toward
eligibility for a $50,000 NSF I-Corps grant.
Who can participate in ZAP?
If you are working on any novel technology with some commercialization possibility healthcare space, you can participate! Professors may attend, and/ or a grad student or postdoc working on the technology may attend.
This is a 2-part event on 8/17 and 9/24 from 10am to 2pm. Lunch will be provided. Participants must attend both sessions.
Register by August 13, 2018 http://lanode.org/zap/
To view the flyer: http://cafe.usc.edu/storage/1844873344.pdf
This event is organized by MESH Academy and IN-LA Innovation Node Los Angeles
Posted by SC CTSI RD
Contact Information
Emily Chu: Emily.Chu@med.usc.edu