San Diego businessman Art Brody has pledged $1 million to the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute to help the academic center turn some of its basic science discoveries into new healthcare products. The gift is being used to create the Art Brody Innovation Fund, which will support promising research that otherwise might not advance with the help of federal grants or venture capital. The Innovation Fund will provide seed capital for spinoff companies from the Sanford-Burnham.
Author: Luke Timmerman
Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.
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