Innovation in Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology

Innovation in Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology

Doğan Taşkent, as the Director Responsible for R&D and Innovation at Atabay Pharmaceuticals and Fine Chemicals, will talk about innovations in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology at the Nano Open Webinar on December 6, 2023

For registration to the Nano Open Webinar, which will take place on December 6, 2023 at 11:00 am at Zoom, http://otolab.sabanciuniv.edu/SUNUMActivityRegistrationForm

About Doğan Taşkent

After graduating from ETH Zürich with a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1993, Mr. Taskent joined MIT for research and Polytechnic Institute of New York University for the Electrophysics and Technology MBA degrees.

During 1998-2005, he worked as R&D engineer, expert consultant and instructor at Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories. During that timeframe he led major fiberoptic transmission system deployments.  At 2006-2007 worked as CTO at the Lucent Technologies Istanbul Office. 2008-2018 worked at Arkan & Ergin Corporate Finance, focusing startup valuation, development of Turkish startup ecosystem and growing the  technology transfer environment.  Since 2019 has been working at Atabay Pharmaceuticals and Fine Chemicals as director responsible for R&D and innovation.  Academically, teaching MBA students on technology and innovation management at Koç University since 2012.

He is the founding President of MIT Enterprise Forum in Turkey, was  member at the Advisory Board of the Endeavor Turkey and founding Board member of the Ege University Technopark. He has been Chairman of the Board at the Swiss Chamber of Commerce in Turkey and also the Vice-President at the Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEIK) responsible for Switzerland.

Currently serving as the Board Member at the Global Relations Forum, at the University Industry Relationships Platforms, and at Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center.