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Perpetual acceleration

Harvard hopes $50M gift will bring Biomedical Accelerator to self sufficiency

May 6, 2013 7:00 AM UTC

Harvard University hopes that a $50 million gift will bring enough early stage projects to a partnering event so that its Biomedical Accelerator will be self-sustaining in eight to 12 years.

Last week, the Blavatnik Family Foundation donated $50 million to the accelerator, which Harvard Chief Technology Officer Isaac Kohlberg formed in 2007 to identify early stage technologies at the university and prepare them for licensing and commercial development...