Business of Bioscience

Early career professionals possessing a combination of science and engineering expertise and business acumen function as highly-valued bridges between scientific discovery and business activities in bioscience companies.  Keck Graduate Institute’s Master of Bioscience program provides excellent preparation for management careers in the bioscience industry as science and engineering concepts are integrated with management and industry issues.

The Business of Bioscience focus track will enable students to identify business opportunities in life science industries and to analyze the associated market, management, technological and ethical issues. Entrepreneurship and the integration of business and technology are strongly emphasized; students have multiple opportunities to analyze the commercial potential of intellectual property arising from scientific discovery.

Career Options
Business Development
Market Research
Competitive Intelligence Analysis
Program Management
Workforce Development Management
Consulting
Strategic Planning
Sales

Topics in the Curriculum
Entrepreneurship
Sources of Innovation
Commercialization Strategy
Value Chain Dynamics
International Business
Emerging Market Biotech Strategies
Accounting and Finance
Venture Capital Financing
The Role of the CEO and Corporate Culture
Stages of Firm Growth
Mergers and Acquisitions
Managing New Product Development
Marketing and Sales
Operations: Balancing Control and Innovation
Managing Human Resources
Leadership   
Modeling Revenues, Market Shares & Expenses
How to Write a Business Plan
Intellectual Property and Licensing
Funding Negotiations: Term Sheets, etc.
IPOs

Course Offerings in the Business of Bioscience Career Focus Track

Business Courses
Students may choose any combination of courses from the following list that comprise a total at least four units over both semesters.
ALS 452 Applied Entrepreneurship Practicum* (1/2 course)
ALS 454 International Business and Global Health
ALS 455 Building a Biomedical Enterprise
ALS 456 Managing Strategic Networks
ALS 458 Applied Entrepreneurship**
ALS 459 Project Management (1/2 course)

*ALS 452 may count as a business/management course only with permission of the faculty instructor.
**ALS 458 begins in October and continues through March for a total of one course unit.

Technical Courses
Students may choose any combination of courses from the following list that comprise a total at least two units over both semesters.
ALS 401 Biopharma: Biotechnology-based Therapeutics
ALS 403 Downstream Processing of Pharmaceuticals (1/2 course)
ALS 407 Pharmacogenetics (1/2 course)
ALS 408  In Vitro Diagnostics 
ALS 409 High Throughput Technologies (1/2 course)
ALS 412 Computational Biology for Drug Discovery (1/2 course)
ALS 420 Advanced BioInstrumentation Laboratory
ALS 425 Instruments: From Product Definition to cGMP Manufacturing
ALS 426 Medical Device Development and Market Release (1/2 course)
ALS 427 Mammalian Cell Biotechnology
ALS 429 Bioseparations Engineering and Science
ALS 433 Clinical Trials Design, Conduct and Strategy (1/2 course)
ALS 434 Clinical Biostatistics (1/2 course)
ALS 435 U.S. Regulatory Affairs (1/2 course)
ALS 436 Small Molecule Regulatory Affairs (1/2 course)
ALS 437 Introduction to Clinical Pharmacology I (1/2 course)
ALS 438 Introduction to Clinical Pharmacology II (1/2 course)