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The Professor Venture Fair began at Bioscience Day 2007 and has become an annual event that gives faculty inventors the opportunity to pitch their new technologies to a team of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs from the region. Presenters are judged based upon clarity of pitch and commercial viability.

Bioscience Day 2013 Venture Fair 11:00 am - 12:00 n

Moderator: Gayatri Varma, Director, OTC

Presenters and INventors: Anthony Melchiorri and John Fisher; Yanjin Zhang; Hadar Ben-Yoav, Reza Ghodssi, Gregory Payne and Deanna L. Kelly ;Kenyon Crowley, Ritu Agarwal , Guodong "Gordon" Gao, Nanette I Steinle and Arnab Ray; Donald DeVoe

Judges:Todd Chappell, Wyatt Somogyi, Matt Cohen, Stephen P. Auvil  

Location: Grand Ballroom Lounge, Stamp Student Union