The Emory Biotech Consulting Club (EBCC) was conceptualized by Professor Bill Wuest, PhD, and later co-founded together with his postdoc, Taylor Hari, and graduate student, Erika Csatary, in the summer of 2018 under the Innovate@Emory initiative. With the support of Prof. Dennis Liotta, the EBCC launched in the spring of 2019 as a highly collaborative, semester-long startup accelerator where business and science meet. As such, membership is open to professional and graduate students at Emory and neighboring institutions, such as Georgia Tech and Georgia State University, with an emphasis on connecting STEM and business graduate students. The program allows participants to apply their current expertise and to develop new skill-sets via experiential learning in alternative disciplines that improves networking and career prospects. This interdisciplinary program is funded by Dean Lisa Tedesco (Laney Graduate School) and actively partnered with Emory’s Office of Technology Transfer (OTT), who are instrumental for helping recruit participating start-ups, the Emory Advancement & Alumni Engagement, the Georgia Research Alliance, and Biolocity.
Emory University
EBCC aims to benefit Emory University by enhancing the university network through new partnerships and collaborations with startups in the Atlanta area. Moreover, as part of the Innovate@Emory initiative, our program drives innovation and promotes entrepreneurship on campus. This serves to attract new students, increases donations from alumni and local businesses, and improve metrics of student success.
Students
EBCC allows students to expand their networks through direct contact with local experts, participate in experiential learning opportunities outside of their areas of study, utilize their current expertise in new ways, develop new skill sets in alternative disciplines, and improve career opportunities.
Faculty Inventors and Startups
EBCC allows faculty inventors to increase their likelihood of securing funding, advancing an early-stage technology, and launching a businesses while still pursuing their core research.
Georgia Research Alliance
EBCC promotes presence of GRA within the Emory communities, provides access to new startups outside of the GRA affiliation, and expands university research into successful startups.
Office of Technology Transfer
EBCC improves the likelihood of project success by assisting in the preparation of certification evaluation reports (CER) while attracting new partners and increasing the awareness of OTT offerings within Emory network.