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All lectures are free and open to the public                                                                              All lectures are free and open to the public


                                 2018 SciTech Lecture Series                                                                                               2018 SciTech Lecture Series

        Using Biological Research to Reduce                                                                                                        Adventures in Innovation


          or Reverse the Effects of Aging and                                                                                                         from Laboratory Bench


                                 Increase Longevity                                                                                                        to the Stratosphere


                                                    presented by                                                                                                               presented by

                                 Laura Deming, Director                                                                                                              Michael Batalia


                                           Longevity Fund                                                                                                    Co-Founder, WideEy3D




         Thursday, February 8                                                                                                      Thursday, February 22

         1:00 p.m.                                                                                                                  4:00 p.m.


         Rhoades Conference Center,                                                                                                Auditorium in the
         Robert L. Strickland Center                                                                                               Robert L. Strickland Center
         (formerly Oak Grove Center),                                                                                              (formerly Oak Grove Center),
         Forsyth Tech Main Campus                                                                                                  Forsyth Tech Main Campus

         2100 Silas Creek Parkway Winston-Salem, 27103                                                                             2100 Silas Creek Parkway Winston-Salem, 27103


         Enter campus on Miller Street and go to the end of the street. Turn left onto                                             Enter campus on Miller Street and go to the end of the street. Turn left onto
         Oak Grove Road and take road around the back of the building, and park                                                    Oak Grove Road and then turn right into the first drive.
         in lot CC3.



                                                                  When she was 8, Laura Deming realized that we were all going to die of
                                                                  a disease called aging. Ever since, her driving passion has been to slow
                                                                  down aging and eliminate age-related disease. She started working in a                                                      Dr. Michael Batalia is a serial entrepreneur and an expert in academic
                                                                  biogerontology lab when she was 12, and enrolled at MIT when she was 14.                                                    technology commercialization.  He is a co-founder of WideEy3D which
                                                                  At 17, she was one of the youngest 20 under 20 fellows awarded $100,000 by                                                  develops 3D printing solutions for mass manufacturing. Dr. Batalia has
                                                                  Peter Thiel to pursue her venture full time.                                                                                over 16 years of experience in academic technology transfer, intellectual
                                                                                                                                                                                              property management, and licensing.  He served over 12 years at Wake
                                                                                                                                                                                              Forest University as executive director of commercialization, and four
                                                                                      Click here for PDF Report                                                                               years at North Carolina State University as associate director then director
         Reserve your seat at:                               For more information:                                                 To reserve a seat at this event:                           of technology transfer.
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