BioCentury
ARTICLE | Strategy

Incubating a Company

July 12, 2004 7:00 AM UTC

Minding the Seed Gap

One way of solving the tech transfer problem may be to incubate actual companies, although few academic institutions have the wherewithal to take on this task. One such institution is the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), with venture stakes in 19 companies. Among those is RheoGene Inc., which UPMC actually spun in in 2003...