Biotech Research Links to Health Institutions Grow

I ran across an excellent article on the relationship between biotech research institutes and health care institutions. This is a very thoughtful case study of how these relationships are forming.

As the economics of R&D evolve, the Salk and other private research institutes become increasingly crucial to health care’s changing value chain.

On an innovation path that begins with a discovery in basic biology and ends with a new drug, independent research institutes play a role that is unusual, often unseen, and more crucial than ever. Labs like the Salk Institute, the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Mass., are vital to a biotechnology industry increasingly in need of their support.

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