Master in Biotechnology and Law
ISDE Law Business School
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Campus location
Madrid, Spain
Languages
Spanish
Study format
Distance Learning, On-Campus
Duration
1 year
Pace
Full time, Part time
Tuition fees
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Earliest start date
Sep 2024
Introduction
Biotechnology has established itself in its own right as one of the fastest growing sectors with the most profound impact on the lives of people and societies.
Sectors such as pharmaceuticals and healthcare, agriculture, food, industry and even the IT sector have biotechnology as their biggest bet for innovation, development and the future.
This immense, growing and varied sector of the economy needs well-prepared professionals to work on aspects ranging from access to markets, patents, intellectual property, technology transfer, to issues such as lobbying before national and international bodies.
The master’s degree in biotechnology and law, pioneering in its genre and innovative in its maximum expression, will prepare you to be that highly demanded professional in this sector. It will include practical teaching provided by some of its most prominent figures and professional internships that will introduce you directly to working in this exciting world.
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Curriculum
I/ Introducción a la biotecnología.
- Definición de la biotecnología, evaluación del área.
- Diversos tipos de biotecnología: Roja, azul, blanca y verde.
- Los clúster de biotecnología.
II/ The Spanish Biotechnology Sector.
- Situation, background, and outlook of the biotechnology sector.
- Investment in R&D by biotechnology companies. Challenges and issues facing the sector.
- Environmental conditions, most developed regions, talent, and diversity.
- Commercial contracting: purchase and sale of biotechnology companies. Mediation and guarantee contracts. Contracts in the stock markets.
- M&A: strategies, operations, alliances. Hybrid operations.
III/ Biotechnology Financing.
- Private financing instruments: venture capital, seed funding, crowdfunding, crowdleading.
- Attracting international financing.
- Fundraising in capital markets. Stock exchange, MAB, Continuous Market.
- Supplementary financing: loans and equity participation.
- Public financing instruments. CDTI, AEI, Enisa, Neotec.
- European financing.
- Regional financing.
IV/ Regulatory Environment/Market Access.
- Legal certainty in the implementation of new technologies and products. European legislation.
- New gene editing techniques.
- License and distribution agreements, international deployment, international alliances.
- Regulations applicable to drug registration, nationally and internationally.
- Agenda 2030, sustainable development goals, and biotechnology.
V/ Intellectual Property Patents.
- Patent system and governance.
- Spanish Patent and Trademark Office.
- Data protection.
- Technology transfer.
VI/ Bioethics.
- Fundamentals of bioethics and ethics. Anthropological bases.
- Bioethics and research. Beginning and end of life.
- Animal experimentation.
- Environment, big data, and biotechnology.
- Legal issues in transplants.
- Biomedical regulation in Europe.
- Regulatory environment of clinical trials.
- CRISPR technology and the ethical-legal status of the human species.
- Legal aspects of vaccination.
- Regulation of surrogacy.
- Legal issues posed by rare diseases.
Career Opportunities
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- Corporate lawyer for biotechnology, pharmaceutical, agrobiotechnology, and healthcare companies.
- Lawyer in the field of scientific patents.
- Lawyer for Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs): Universities, Technology Centers, Scientific Parks.
- Advisor in scientific institutions and associations: (National Center for Biotechnology, CNIO, CNIC, CIB, ONT, Carlos III Health Institute, CSIC, Ramón y Cajal Institute, BIOSIM; AESEG; ASEBIO; FARMAINDUSTRIA; ANOVE, etc.)
- Lawyer for Scientific Foundations (Botín Foundation, Antama Foundation, FECYT, etc.)
- Mergers and acquisitions specialist for biotechnology companies.
- Bioethics advisor.
- Market access manager.
- International drug licensing.
- Strategic consultant in biotechnology consultancy.
- Advisor for Professional Associations.
- Compliance officer in biotechnology companies.
- Specialist in innovation financing. (With a particular emphasis on European projects, ENISA, CDTI, NEOTEC)
- Director of European biotechnology projects.
- Business development manager for biotechnology.
- Director of institutional relations in biotechnology companies.
- Legal advisor for biotechnology startups.
- Venture capital and biotechnology lawyer.
- Advisor in second rounds of financing.
- Specialist in lobbying for biotechnology companies or associations.
- Lawyer for patient associations or affected platforms.
- Legal advisor for international surrogacy.
- Legal advisor for alternative financing search, crowdfunding, crowdleading, MAB listing.
- Director of Biotechnological Business Development.
- Legal advisor for biofuel companies, alternative energies (Algae, waste, bioremediation...).
- Advisor for the acquisition of next-generation funds (new European funds for economic development).
- Biotechnology companies in sectors: animal health, bioinformatics, and nanobiotechnology.
- Biofuel sector, producer associations, administration (CIEMAT; IDAE).
- Umbilical cord blood banks.
- Teaching, seminar design, meetings, and forums in the biotechnology sector (BIOSPAIN).