Postdocs who make a translatable discovery usually leave it behind when their contract ends. A two-year fellowship with salary, a project budget of $250,000 to $500,000 and mentors from drug development, regulation and the clinic would pay them to turn it into a candidate drug, diagnostic or device, with the option to license it or found a company.
Fellowships with salary, a project budget of $250,000 to $500,000 and structured mentoring from drug developers, regulatory experts and clinicians, awarded to postdoctoral scientists or clinical fellows to translate a specific finding: target validation, lead optimisation, assay development, prototype device. Fellows are hosted in translational institutes or academic drug discovery units and have the option to found a company or license the asset. Precedents include the Wellcome and MRC translational fellowships, Blavatnik Fellowships and the EMBL-EBI industry programme; oncology lacks a dedicated scheme at scale.
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Shares Translational research: crossing the valley of death, Regional translational institutes with academic GMP suites and IND teams, The valley of death between lab and product.
Shares Translational research: crossing the valley of death, The valley of death between lab and product.
Shares Translational research: crossing the valley of death, The valley of death between lab and product.
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Shares Regional translational institutes with academic GMP suites and IND teams, The valley of death between lab and product.