Biotechnology Entrepreneurship

Be strategic in securing intellectual property rights for the benefit of your patients As scientists, we are hardwired to communicate our breakthrough discoveries openly and rapidly in order to advance knowledge for the benefit of humanity. While admirable, scientific publications alone do not cure patients. Alleviation of pain and suffering occurs only when such knowledge […]

We just passed the 40th anniversary of the biotech industry, a birth made possible by the confluence of a seminal patent in recombinant DNA technology, the successful IPO of the first biotech company Genentech, validation of a Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for recombinant DNA technology, and key legislation empowering academic institutions to commercialize