Global Entrepreneurship Class

Global Life Sciences/Healthcare Entrepreneurship Course: Virtual Master Class Direct from Silicon Valley
with Stephanie Marrus, Managing Director, Entrepreneurship, University of California, San Francisco.

Fall 2025 Global Cohort

Registration Deadline: September 3

Course Brochure   Register Here 


$1 Million Start for First Time Founder & Global Startup Course Briefing - JULY 22

The 7th cohort of UCSF’s acclaimed life science/healthcare entrepreneurship course starts in Fall 2025. This virtual course is live and online, takes place over a 10-week period, and requires only 3-6 hours per week.  All lectures are recorded for reference. 

Learn business requirements for a startup from the world’s leading entrepreneurial ecosystem.

How we’re different from other online entrepreneurship courses:

  • Life sciences/healthcare startup focus with its specialized topics
  • High touch, live sessions: interactive lectures, small discussion groups and individualized mentoring is live, not canned videos
  • Guest lectures by investors and entrepreneurs who are current practitioners
  • Communicates the winning mindset and culture of Silicon Valley
  • A community that extends in and beyond class; active global alumni network
  • Delivered by UCSF, the scientific and medical leader in the US and creator of the biotechnology industry

 

Top practitioners in Silicon Valley- serial entrepreneurs, investors, pharmaceutical executives, attorneys, and domain experts -- will explain the requirements to build a successful company. 

This course is meant for diverse professionals: scientists, clinicians, researchers, academics, startup CEOs,                                                                                management teams, ecosystem managers, tech transfer, corporate executives, investors, and policymakers. 

 

REGISTER HERE -DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 3

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Here’s what our students have to say –

 

This course condensed a decade’s worth of lessons into just 10 weeks

 Saumya Jamuar, MBBS

Co-founder, Global Gene Corp
Director, SingHealth Duke-NUS

It's been more than I could ever hope for. I was blown away by the quality of people  gathered in one place 

Russell Ernst, PhD

Stealth Biotech Startup

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was great to have the focus on Life Sciences, something I have not found in entrepreneurship courses anywhere else

Barbara Harvey Carroll, PhD

Director of Business Development, Life Sciences, Dublin City University, Ireland

 

 

The class provided great opportunities to engage with speakers and ask them questions. 

Jon VanLeeuwen, PhD

Executive Director, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, UCSF

 

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