Slater Technology Fund names Entrepreneurial Fellows

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SLATER fellows (left to right) Rachel Decker, Donald Bacoat Jr., Anthony Assad, Bogdan Prokopovych, Mark Bell, Jason Chan and Amy Gibson. /
SLATER fellows (left to right) Rachel Decker, Donald Bacoat Jr., Anthony Assad, Bogdan Prokopovych, Mark Bell, Jason Chan and Amy Gibson. /

PROVIDENCE – The state-backed Slater Technology Fund announced the eight participants of its 2010-2011 entrepreneurial fellows program on Wednesday.

In its third year, the program is designed to attract and support a next generation of entrepreneurs in the life science industry by drawing students from the state’s colleges and universities into active participation in the process of venture development, it explained in a news release.

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The 2010-2011 academic year fellows are:

  • Anthony Assad, Brown University senior, majoring in biology
  • Donald Bacoat Jr. University of Rhode Island, Ph.D. candidate at the College of the Environment and Life Sciences
  • Mark Bell Brown University, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Neuroscience
  • Jason Chan Brown University, first year student at the Warren Alpert Medical School
  • Rachel Decker Brown University, master’s degree student in Innovation, Management and Entrepreneurship.
  • Kenneth Estrellas Brown University, master’s degree student in Artificial Organs, Biomaterials and Cellular Technology
  • Amy Gibson University of Rhode Island, final year student in the five-year International Engineering program
  • Bogdan Prokopovych University of Rhode Island, Ph.D. candidate in the College of Business Administration

    Fellows will help the Rhode Island Science and Technology Council undertake a survey of the technology transfer function – the commercialization of developed technology – at Rhode Island research institutions and compare it to peer institutions. The survey results will help STAC form policy recommendations in its efforts to enhance the competitiveness of life sciences research in Rhode Island, the news release said.

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    Additionally, fellows will participate in programs offered by the Rhode Island Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

    “The Entrepreneurial Fellows Program is designed to make [students] aware of the opportunities that exist locally and to catalyze and improve the pathways for further pursuit,” said Robert Valentini, the primary responsibility for directing the 2010-2011 Fellow Program.

    “Rhode Island’s knowledge-based economy depends on this next generation of innovators,” he said.

    The participants were selected in late 2010 and began the various Fellows programs in January; the program will continue through May.

    The fellows program is a joint initiative between Slater and the Rhode Island NSF EPSCoR; Slater was able to add two more fellows this year thanks to renewal funding awarded in September, a spokeswoman confirmed.

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