When Michael Wells had an idea for a healthcare startup when he was a Pitt student, he didn’t know where to go for help within the university to move it forward.
Judy Cameron, right, and doctoral student Alexandra Miragaia demonstrate the Working for Kids: Building Skills platform.
Over the past 6 years, the Coulter Program has re-shaped the biomedical translational research landscape at the University of Pittsburgh. Not only has the Wallace Coulter Foundation’s grant to the University accelerated biomedical innovation to serve humanity, it has helped transform the research culture at Pitt.
Nicki Zevola Benvenuti is a Pitt alumna and founder of FutureDerm, a skin care advice and product platform, and FutureDerm Media, a digital marketing agency. She shares her insights into the support she received at Pitt to become an entrepreneur and her advice to current students interested in entrepreneurship. She will be discussing risk taking with fellow entrepreneur Mark DeSantis at the next Entrepreneurial Café, Friday, September 22, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Mervis Hall, Room 118 Event Space. E-Café is where Pitt innovators and entrepreneurs come to network and support each other with other members of the regional innovation ecosystem.
Max Polec was an Innovation Institute intern and participated in numerous student entrepreneurship programs while at Pitt. He was recently named the inaugural director at the University of Alabama Birmingham Commercalization Accelerator.