The inside story behind the fall of Laurie Glimcher's big I/O startup and the often tense equation of science and money
Jeanne Magram had been commuting from New York to the Toronto-based startup Northern Biologics for four years, when a fresh-faced, first-time CEO offered her a chance to stay closer to home. Versant Ventures, the VC behind Northern Biologics, had started an incubator in Manhattan and just launched one of their first companies: an oncology startup based around new discoveries from one of the biggest names in cancer research, Harvard immunologist and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute CEO Laurie Glimcher.
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