**In light of the heightened uncertainty raised by the COVID-19 pandemic, IMAGINE IF! NYC local program and competition have been canceled until further notice.** **STAY TUNED for future Innovation Forum New York events!** For the first time in New York, IMAGINE IF! pre-accelerator pitch competition is now launching! IMAGINE IF! seeks to identify disruptive ideasaaa

IFNY wants everyone to know our amazing members! Dr. Lander Egana-Gorrono is our Operations Manager, in charge of all things related to the Imagine IF! competition. He is a postdoctoral fellow at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City. His research involves the study of macrophage biology in the context of cardiometabolic diseases suchaaa

IFNY is one of 22 global branches of Innovation Forum, spanning three continents and fostering over 10,000 innovators. Run entirely by volunteers, IFNY aims to accelerate biomedical innovation in New York City by promoting collaboration between academia, industry and government. This 2019 was a very successful year for IFNY. In March, in collaboration with the MSK Officeaaa

Meet our team: IFNY wants everyone to know our amazing members! Maite Sabalza is currently the Reagents Product Manager at EUROIMMUN US.  She earned her Ph.D. in Plant Biotechnology in Spain in 2013. Her dissertation work focused on the production of microbicide components in plants to prevent HIV infection. Maite then moved to the USaaa

Last month, IFNY co-hosted the “Fundraising for Life Science Startups” workshop in association with Biolabs@NYU Langone. The event was led by Dennis Ford, Founder & CEO of Life Science Nation (LSN), as well as creator of the Redefining Early Stage Investments (RESI) conference series. Dennis and LSN have a successful track record of helping lifeaaa

On September 19, 2019, at Weill Cornell Medical College entrepreneurs and STEM professionals gathered for the “Women’s Health: Building Businesses to Break Boundaries” panel discussion. The event, organized by Innovation Forum New York in collaboration with the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs at Weill Cornell Medicine, started with four successful women entrepreneurs each talking about theiraaa

This month, Sabyasachi Dash of IFNY sat down with Fran Strauss, Principal at HealthMark Strategies in New York City. Fran is a proven Reimbursement & Payer Commercialization strategist and Market Access executive with expertise in genetic testing, molecular diagnostics, medical/mobile devices, personalized medicine and diagnostic laboratories. She works with commercial and government payers, employers, unions andaaa

Meet our team: IFNY wants everyone to know our amazing members! Dr. Gabriel Duran Rehbein is the Marketing Manager at IFNY. He is a physician-scientist currently working as a postdoctoral fellow in Memorial Sloan Kettering. His laboratory work focuses on the development of a novel real-time drug screening platform for primary brain tumors using patient-derivedaaa

Meet our team: IFNY wants everyone to get to know our amazing members! Dr. Miguel Manzanares is the Events Manager of IFNY. He is a Postdoctoral researcher at NYU School of Medicine, trained as a cancer biologist with expertise in drug development projects, tumor microenvironment studies and dietary prevention strategies on a wide variety ofaaa

Meet our team: IFNY wants everyone to know our amazing members! Dr. Marek Drozdz is the President of IFNY, our fearless leader! He is currently working as a researcher in skin cancer biology at the Weill Cornell Medical College. His work there aims to develop a comprehensive understanding of changes in melanocyte biology that leadaaa