Bio:
L. Franklin Bost, M.B.A., IDSA, FAIMBE serves as a director of APDC. He is the executive associate dean of the VCU School of Engineering, and the director of the VCU Institute for Engineering and Medicine. As executive associate dean, he oversees the development of innovation and outreach programs, marketing and communications, student career services activities, the VIP @ VCU multi-disciplinary, multi-year program, and student co-op and internship programs for the School of Engineering. As director of the VCU Institute for Engineering and Medicine, Bost oversees bridging entities between VCU Engineering, VCUHealth Campus, and the Virginia Biotechnology Park in enhancing collaborations on unmet needs in patient care and translational development of innovations toward deployment into clinical practice.
