marcusJoel S. Marcus, chairman of the board of directors, CEO and president of the Alexandria Center for Life Science, will speak at Fordham’s Rose Hill campus.

Marcus will be a guest of the Gabelli School of Business’ Alternative Investments Club.

Monday, April 15

5:15 p.m.

Hughes Hall, Room 212, Rose Hill Campus,Bronx, N.Y.

Before co-founding Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. in 1994, Alexandria Venture Investments in 1996, and the annual Alexandria Summit in 2011, Marcus was a partner at the law firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP, where he specialized in corporate finance and capital markets, venture capital, and mergers and acquisitions.

From 1984 to 1994, he also served as general counsel and secretary of Kirin-Amgen, Inc., a joint venture that financed the development of, and owned patents to, two multi-billion dollar genetically engineered biopharmaceutical products.

The Alexandria Center for Life Science, which is located on East 29th Street and First Avenue between Bellevue Hospital and NYU Medical Center, is a state-of-the-art research and development campus that aims to become a flagship location for future bioscience expansion in New York City.For more information, contact Kevin Mirabile at[email protected] or Michael Sutton at [email protected].

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Patrick Verel is a news producer for Fordham Now. He can be reached at [email protected] or (212) 636-7790.