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Deconvoluting translation at Scripps

Why Scripps Research's non-profit model is doubling down on target discovery

March 22, 2019 1:49 AM UTC

With three institutes now under one roof, Scripps Research has established both its own pipeline and a non-profit funding model to bring candidates through early stage clinical trials.

Diverging from the philanthropy and investor-based approaches in other academic powerhouses that often out-license their findings at the preclinical stage, Scripps wants to hold on to its compounds up to Phase II...