The Women's Entrepreneurial Life Science Initiative

0227936 Villa-Komaroff该奖项是西北大学支持下面描述的活动36个月。 该提案是为了响应创新伙伴关系计划征集而提交的（NSF 02060）。合作伙伴包括西北大学（牵头机构）、伊利诺伊州技术企业公司和妇女商业发展中心、埃文斯顿镇高中、杜鲁门社区学院、芝加哥青年妇女领导特许学校、雅培实验室、加速商业解决方案、百创集团、咨询技术、cue生物技术公司，派珀鲁德尼克有限责任公司，跳板企业，源泉通信，妇女推进生物科学，协会妇女在科学。该方案将增加各种背景的年轻妇女对科学和创新的参与，并记录伙伴关系的活动，以便对以妇女为重点的生命科学经济发展感兴趣的类似伙伴关系可以从吸取的经验教训中受益。（1）增加芝加哥地区女性拥有和管理的生命科学初创企业的数量，（2）增加获得SBIR和STTR奖项的女性数量，（3）增加妇女拥有的企业筹集的风险资本的百分比，（4）通过增加高收入的生命科学技术工作创造财富，（5）扩大服务不足的年轻妇女的生命科学知识和参与，以及（6）创建一个文件研究，强调人，工具，通过创建由妇女拥有和管理的生命科学公司，将增加高薪工作的新来源，特别是在该区域代表性不足的人口中。

0227936Villa-Komaroff This award is to Northwestern University to support the activity described below for 36 months. The proposal was submitted in response to the Partnerships for Innovation Program Solicitation (NSF 02060).The partners include Northwestern University (Lead Institution), Illinois Technology Enterprise Corporation and the Women's Business Development Center, Evanston Township High School, Truman Community College, Young Women's Leadership Charter School of Chicago, Abbott Laboratories, Accelerated Business Solutions, Biotron Group, Counseltech, cue BIOtech, Piper Rudnick LLC, Springboard Enterprises, Wellspring Communications, Women Advancing Bioscience, Association for Women in Science. The program will increase the participation of young women of all backgrounds in science and innovation and document the partnership's activities so that similar partnerships interested in women-focused life science economic development can benefit from the experiences and lessons learned.The program has the following goals: (1) increase the number of women-owned and managed life science start-ups in the Chicago region, (2) increase the number of women receiving SBIR and STTR awards, (3) increase the percentage of venture capital raised by women-owned businesses, (4) create wealth through additional high paying life sciences technology jobs, (5) broaden under-served young women's life science knowledge and participation, and (6) create a documentation study emphasizing the people, tools, and activities needed by similar partnerships interested in related activities.There will be an increase in the number of new sources of higher-paying jobs, especially among underrepresented populations in the region, by creating woman-owned and managed life science companies.