Backyard Biotech

There was a time when university scientists could take their experiments home and launch a company from their garage-laboratories.  This story, however, is about companies that are dispersed networks-where the President is working from his attic office in California, and the CFO handles business from her Midwest home, and freelance researchers and support staff are from all over.  Strange as this seems, it’s actually a scaled down model of how the major pharmas go about drug discovery and clinical testing. It’s also an inspiration for physician entrepreneurs.               MORE

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