Tech Transfer Roundup: Entrepreneurial Culture Matters

14 Dec 2016

• By Deanna Kamienski, Beth Allan, Maureen Riordan, Joseph Haas, and Ying Huang

Believing biomedical research at Duke is “under fished” compared to the ponds in San Francisco and Boston, Duke’s institutional CRO looks to provide clinical trial design and other services to help tech transfer along. Plus, recent tech transfer deals include AbbVie, Calimmune and China’s Yisheng.

The internal culture at a university is a major factor in how successful it is in taking discovery research, translating that to clinical candidates and creating spinouts, Duke Clinical Research Institute Executive Director Eric Peterson commented in an interview with Scrip.

In that regard, Peterson believes Duke University remains in the early stages of facilitating an entrepreneurial outlook – and...

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