CHINABIO® Life Sciences Summer Work-Study Program
Program Overview
ChinaBio® Education and Keck Graduate Institute welcome students and early-career professionals in the life sciences, engineering, business management, economics, international relations, law and public policy fields to participate in the ChinaBio® Life Sciences Summer Work-Study Program in Shanghai, China for the summer of 2011. This program is held in collaboration with KGI, and students completing this program will receive a joint ChinaBio®/KGI China Life Science Business Certificate.
Students will participate in a pre-travel short course and a 10-week visit to Shanghai where they will perform a working internship with ChinaBio® or with a multi-national life sciences company. During their stay in China, students will participate in weekly coursework to compare and contrast their work experiences, the nature of the host companies, and the business landscape of life science businesses in Shanghai.
Course and Work-Study Descriptions
A pre-travel short course, entitled "China and the United States: Comparative Biotechnology Business, Law and Regulation," will be given over three days in Claremont, California at KGI from May 20-22, 2011, from 9 am to 5 pm each day. The course will be taught by ChinaBio® faculty. More information about the short course is available at www.kgi.edu/china-us-bioscience.xml.
The working internship will be a placement with either ChinaBio® or a life sciences company in Shanghai, China. Students will be assigned to a Chinese or Western life sciences company with operations in Shanghai where they will work in-residence full time from May 30 to August 5, 2011. They also will work with the management of their host company to develop a written research project relating to their internship that will be presented to the class and published by ChinaBio® Today, a leading industry publication. Several trips to local companies, law firms, research institutes and government agencies may be included in the program and a weekly presentation will be made by a different student and company each Thursday evening.
Developers
The ChinaBio® program has been developed by Greg Scott and Randy Berholtz.
Scott is the president and founder of ChinaBio® LLC, a Shanghai-based investment and consulting firm, and president and co-founder of Life Science Angels, Inc, a U.S.-based investment group. He has helped launch 30 life science companies in the U.S. and China as a founder, investor or advisor. ChinaBio® holds four major life science conferences in China each year plus consults with a number of multinational pharma and biotech companies as well as venture capitalists.
Berholtz is an adjunct professor at KGI lecturing on biotechnology business law, an adjunct professor of law at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and a lecturer at the Rady School of Business at the University of California at San Diego. Berholtz is also the executive vice president and general counsel to Apricus Biosciences, Inc., a public drug delivery company in San Diego. He was formerly general counsel to a group of Chinese-U.S. life science companies and has represented numerous U.S. and China-based pharma, biotech and medical device companies. Berholtz is a graduate of Cornell, Yale Law School and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Program Costs
Cost for the program is $12,500 per student which includes the costs of tuition, housing and round trip airfare (Los Angeles/Shanghai) for the 10-week period. Additional tours of China may be arranged by the program instructors at an additional cost or done by the students separately.
The program will be taught in English. While knowledge of Chinese is not required, it may be helpful to maximize the internship experience. Chinese language instruction may be available through a third party at an additional cost.
Only 15 students will be enrolled in the 2011 program. Students will be accepted based on their GPA, life-science industry experience, and other criteria as established by the organizers, at their sole discretion.
Applications must be submitted by April 15, 2011, along with a non-refundable security deposit of $150. (The deposit will be refunded if the applicant is not accepted by the organizers or if positions are no longer available.) Once the applications are received, a teleconference interview will be held shortly thereafter with at least one of the program's directors.
For more information on the program, or to submit your application, please visit www.chinabiollc.com/events/cbws2011.