Shortly after arriving at University of California, San Diego as its director of commercialization, Ruben Dario Flores-Saaib initiated an “entrepreneurs in residence” program that in two years helped spur the creation of five start-ups around research conducted at the school.
Flores-Saaib, a 12-year biopharma industry veteran who helped establish and lead a bioscience academic alliances team at Merck KGAA/