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About the Author 
Yali Friedman, Ph.D., is founder of thinkBiotech. His book, Building
Biotechnology, is used as a course text in dozens of
biotechnology programs. He is also editor of Best Practices in Biotechnology Education and Best Practices in Biotechnology Business Development,
managing editor of the Journal of Commercial
Biotechnology, and
serves on the science advisory board of Chakra Biotech and the
editorial advisory boards of the Biotechnology Journal and
Open Biotechnology Journal.
Yali also has strong exposure to leading issues in international biotechnology. He served as editor of Global Hubs and Global Nodes of Biotechnology, profiling biotechnology strategies, initiatives, and institutional capacity in 35 countries, and has been invited to participate in biotechnology commercialization forums for countries such as Canada, Germany, the Philippines, and Turkey. Yali regularly guest-lectures for biotechnology education programs, teaching classes on the business of biotechnology, and has written and given talks on diverse topics such as biotechnology entrepreneurship, strategies to cope with a lack of management talent and capital when developing companies outside of established hubs, and new paradigms in technology-based economic development. Yali has a long history in biotechnology media, having created a Forbes "Best of the Web"-rated web site on the biotechnology industry for a NY Times company and managed it for many years. His other projects include the Student Guide to DNA Based Computers, sponsored by FUJI Television, BiotechBlog.com, and DrugPatentWatch.com, a pharmaceutical industry competitive intelligence service based on a business plan that was awarded second place in the Panasci Entrepreneurial Awards Competition. 
Building Biotechnology is a product of
thinkBiotech
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