Center for Integration of Science and Industry at Bentley University

This past weekend, Undergraduate Researcher Franchesca Vilmenay ’26 and Research Associate Paula Chaves da Silva traveled to the Washington, DC offices of Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Edward Markey, and Representative Katherine Clark to explain the power of the undergraduate research experience and describe their work on NIH contributions to new drug approvals and the value this creates for both private enterprise and society. They were participating in the Council on Undergraduate Research's 2024-2025 Scholars Transforming Through Research (STR) Program, which provides training and exposure to the process of advocating for research and research-based educational practices. Franchesca and Paula's research here in our Center focuses on assessing the social and private value created through commercialization of innovative pharmaceutical products and the returns on both public and private sector investments in these products. Their work demonstrates the enormous value created by National Institutes of Health funding for basic and applied biomedical research and the role of drug prices in ensuring an equitable balance between public and private returns. Bentley University Bentley University Center for Health and Business The Center for Women and Business at Bentley University Jeanne and Dan Valente Center for Arts & Sciences #BentleyUResearch #CURSTR Congresswoman Katherine Clark Senator Edward Markey

Happy Work Anniversary to Edward W. Zhou! Thank you for all that you've done for us over the past four years. Your hard work does not go unnoticed! #workmilestone

Last week, we hosted a fireside chat on what truly makes innovation work with Dr. Susan Windham-Bannister, the founding CEO of Massachusetts Life Sciences Center. Thank you Dr. Windham-Bannister for sharing such valuable insights on the pieces of an ecosystem and the importance of public-private partnerships in advancing innovation capacity—your expertise and perspective made for an engaging and thought-provoking discussion. Thank you to Payal Arya, PhD for moderating this amazing session. We are also grateful to The Center for Women and Business at Bentley University and Bentley University Center for Health and Business for co-sponsoring this event. View the recording here: https://lnkd.in/erPieGTB Bentley University #BentleyUResearch Fred Ledley

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our workshop, titled "Can Nonprofits Rectify Failures to Develop Drugs for Diseases of Poverty?" at the 2025 AAAS Annual Meeting on Friday. Special appreciation to our amazing speakers, Mel Spigelman, Alicia Ely Yamin, and Susan Windham-Bannister, for sharing their insights and making this an engaging session. Bentley University Bentley University Center for Health and Business Fred Ledley Payal Arya, PhD #AAASmtg #BentleyUResearch

What really makes innovation work? To find out, please join us for an engaging fireside chat with Dr. Susan Windham-Bannister on Thursday, February 13, from 4:00 to 5:30 PM in LaCava 325. Networking reception to follow! Register here: https://lnkd.in/eiApZ5hU Moderated by: Payal Arya, PhD Presented by: Center for Integration of Science and Industry at Bentley University, The Center for Women and Business at Bentley University, Bentley University Center for Health and Business Bentley University, #BentleyUResearch

Congratulations to two of our (now former) Undergraduate Researchers for graduating from Bentley University this semester! Christopher Abbatangelo: Bachelor of Science, Finance Adam Tayebjee: Bachelor of Science, Finance We wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors!

Our work (Cleary et al., 2023) was cited by The New York Times this week as evidence of the critical importance of the NIH: "The National Institutes of Health, the world’s leading public funder of biomedical research, has an enviable track record. Research supported by the agency has led to more than 100 Nobel Prizes and has supported more than 99 percent of the drugs approved by federal regulators from 2010 to 2019." Read more: https://lnkd.in/e2RwCviG Ekaterina "Kat" Cleary, PhD, Matthew Jackson, Edward W. Zhou, Fred Ledley, Bentley University, Bentley University Center for Health and Business, #BentleyUResearch

On Wednesday, November 20th, Bentley University's Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Center & Student Accessibility Services present: "Healthcare & Disability Status in America" featuring a panel of experts, including our collaborator Anthony Kiszewski. Bentley University Center for Health and Business Jeanne and Dan Valente Center for Arts & Sciences Julia Matthews Sai Waters #BentleyUResearch

Interesting representation of how research from the Center for Integration of Science and Industry at Bentley University fit with the work of other scholars describing the role of government funding (specifically, The National Institutes of Health) in the ecosystem for pharmaceutical innovation. The papers by Ekaterina "Kat" Cleary, PhD (2018, 2020, 2023), Zhou (2023), Ledley (2023), Beierlein (2017), and McNamee (2017) are from our research Center. Links available at https://lnkd.in/grbpvb8. Graphic from: https://lnkd.in/edjzjHP2 Bentley University Center for Health and Business, Bentley University, Institute for New Economic Thinking, #innovation, #pharmaceuticals, #basicresearch, #drugdevelopment, #appliedresearch