Universities
not only provide the ideal petri dish for cultivating bioscience with
commercial potential, but have a moral obligation to do so, given the
opportunity to translate public funding into health and jobs, according to a
new case study by UCSF researchers.
In an
analysis published Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine, researchers at
the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) assessed the impact
of the institute’s efforts over the past eight years in supporting
entrepreneurs on the three UC campuses in which it operates: UCSF, UC Berkeley
and UC Santa Cruz.