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Program helps UCSF innovators consider entrepreneurship as a career to positively change the world for millions of people through a startup. We inform faculty, PhDs, MDs and Post Docs by providing knowledge, mentorship and an unparalleled network that gathers around the UCSF ecosystem. The program encompasses pragmatic education about entrepreneurship, events featuring life sciences/healthcare business leaders, informal networking get togethers, opportunities for visibility among funders and more. </span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin:0in; text-align:start; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; margin-right:0in; margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="font-variant-caps:normal"><span style="font-variant-numeric:inherit"><span style="font-variant-east-asian:inherit"><span style="font-variant-alternates:inherit"><span style="font-variant-position:inherit"><span style="font-variant-emoji:inherit"><span style="font-stretch:inherit"><span style="line-height:inherit"><span style="font-optical-sizing:inherit"><span style="font-size-adjust:inherit"><span style="font-kerning:inherit"><span style="font-feature-settings:inherit"><span style="font-variation-settings:inherit"><span style="orphans:2"><span style="widows:2"><span style="text-decoration-thickness:initial"><span style="text-decoration-style:initial"><span style="text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-style:inherit"><span style="font-variant:inherit"><span style="font-weight:inherit"><span style="font-stretch:inherit"><span style="line-height:inherit"><span style="font-optical-sizing:inherit"><span style="font-size-adjust:inherit"><span style="font-kerning:inherit"><span style="font-feature-settings:inherit"><span style="font-variation-settings:inherit"><span style="font-size:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-style:inherit"><span style="font-variant:inherit"><span style="font-weight:inherit"><span style="font-stretch:inherit"><span style="line-height:inherit"><span style="font-optical-sizing:inherit"><span style="font-size-adjust:inherit"><span style="font-kerning:inherit"><span style="font-feature-settings:inherit"><span style="font-variation-settings:inherit"><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt; 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