
How academic centers are trying to keep their promising drug discoveries out of the ‘valley of death’
Scripps Research hatches medicines. Now, it’s looking to spark something else: a model for financial independence.
The biomedical institute has carried programs into clinical trials, and elsewhere, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is co-developing companies.
No longer beholden to early-stage pacts with pharmaceuticals, academic centers are trying to do a better job capitalizing on their science. The goal is to ease their reliance on government funding and overcome the “valley of death” in which promising research languishes.
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