BVGH restructuring

Not-for-profit BIO Ventures for Global Health is restructuring to focus on a collaboration with the World Intellectual Property Organization, Jennifer Dent, BVGH's VP for commercialization and alliance management, told BioCentury. BVGH will focus primarily on WIPO Re:Search, a public database of shared IP for the development of drugs, vaccines and diagnostics for neglected tropical diseases, malaria and tuberculosis (TB). WIPO and BVGH launched the database in 2011 (see BioCentury Extra, Oct. 31, 2011). ...