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Event

ZAP! A 2-Part Course for USC Entrepreneurs

August 17, 2018 : 10:00am - 2:00pm PDT

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 towardeligibility 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

NIH Funding Acknowledgment: Important - All publications resulting from the utilization of SC CTSI resources are required to credit the SC CTSI grant by including the NIH funding acknowledgment and must comply with the NIH Public Access Policy.