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The WIB San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
San Francisco, the birthplace of Biotech, is delighted to launch the first California chapter of WIB, and to expand the organization's resources and activities to the dynamic and innovative Bay Area community. The region is home to the world's oldest and largest life sciences cluster employing 52,000 people in over 1,400 companies and major academic centers including UCSF, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and UC Santa Cruz.
The San Francisco Bay Area continues to foster biomedical innovation. Local companies have over 700 products in clinical trials and the region is home to centers of innovation such as the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and several well-established incubators.
WIB-San Francisco Bay Area is committed to promoting careers, leadership and entrepreneurship for women in the life sciences industry. We are dedicated to providing education, mentoring and professional development assistance to women and young women who are working in life sciences companies or in professional services firms that support the life sciences sector. We also provide programs to support young women and girls who are interested in careers in science.
Out membership consists of professionals at leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies, as well as women working in related not-for-profits, academic institutions, and professional services firms such as law, consulting and financial service firms that are supporting the life science community.
To contact the San Francisco Bay Area chapter email SanFrancisco@womeninbio.org.
Steering Committee
Chapter Chair: Simone Fishburn, Ph.D., Exponent, Inc.
Chapter Vice Chair: Chris Meda, RxDxLink
Communications
Co-chair: Teresa Corbin, Fenwick & West, LLP
Co-chair: Chris Eckhaus, MBA, Greenstreak Consulting
Vice-chair: Christine Frankovic, KCAS Labs
Funding Committee
Co-chair: Linda Kemby, Kemby TV
Co-chair: Elise Brownell, Ph.D., ZephyrBiotech LLC
Co-chair: Meredith Warshaw Ph.D., Molecular Image Inc.
Membership
Co-chair: Kirsten Leute, MBA, Stanford University OTL
Co-chair: Kristin Gross, MS, Acurian Inc
Program (Events) Committee
Chair: Joan Kureczka, Kureczka-Martin Associates
Vice Chair: Dawn Hocevar, BioSurplus Inc
Young Women In Bio (YWIB)
Co-chair: Lisa Bjornestad, Radiant Research
Co-chair: Alissa Faris, Arnold & Porter, LLP
Steering Committee
Antoinette Konski, Foley & Lardner, LLP
Christa Nicholas, Burrill & Co
Cindy Steiner, Steiner Intl. Communications
Dawn Hocevar, BioSurplus Inc
Ellen Martin, MBA, Kureczka-Martin Associates
Gabriella Lombardi, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Holly Logue Esq., 17th Street Legal, LLC
Julia Vax, Arnold & Porter, LLP
Karen Bergman, BCC Partners
Laura White, Bio Time, Inc
Lauren Nelson, MS, Genzyme
Virginia Brooks, Ph.D., Intrexon
Yalia Jayalakshmi, Ph.D., StemPar Sciences
WIB-San Francisco Bay Area Past Events
WIB-San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Launch is a Smashing Success
On March 22, 2012, we networked. We received inspiration. We energized one another. We partied. We made plans for the future. Over 150 women gathered at UCSF’s Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. Kim Popovits, the Chairman, President and CEO of Redwood City cancer diagnostic test developer, Genomic Health, Inc., fielded questions from a rapt audience about her path to the top position at the company. Her main message –- find mentors and advisors who will push you to take risks. Get outside your comfort zone and dare to fail. WIB’s President Phyllis Dillinger and Laura Shawver, CEO of Cleave Biosciences, also addressed the audience. It was a fabulous night and we look forward to our next event. To read an article from the San Francisco Business Times summarizing the event, click here.
WIB-San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Chapter at JP Morgan Healthcare Conference
Women in Bio-San Francisco enjoyed some excellent exposure, promotion and attention at the Biotech Showcase. San Francisco Chapter Members tirelessly evangelized the WIB Mission and promoted the San Francisco Chapter's upcoming launch event to conference participants and guests at several evening receptions including Burrill and Fenwick and West. It was an eventful fun week that generated momentum, mailing lists, and an offer to exhibit at an upcoming Bay Area Conference! Way to go WIB! Thank you in particular to Chris Eckhaus for her tireless work in organizing the table at Biotech showcase and to all San Francisco Chapter Members, Burrill, Fenwick & West, Biotech Showcase, and National WIB for your support and assistance in making this event so successful for WIB San Francisco.
From left to right: Ellen M Martin, Joan Kureczka and Julia Vax
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