Sentences with phrase «small biotech start»

Now, a small biotech start - up is providing an alternative for those critics who want to mine Iceland's genetic riches but do not want to cooperate with the company that has exclusive rights to the database.

These include the BioRegio initiative, aimed at establishing a «competence network» in biotech, the BioFuture competition for young scientists, and BioChance for small biotech start - ups.

Not exact matches

San Francisco - based Genentech, for example, started out as a small biotech in 1976.

Blackwell has started a small biotech company in Madison with that as her goal — plotting a future jump in scale from plants to people.

But I think it's a disservice to gloss over the topic, because in reality it can be a fairly large hurdle for a successful industry transition,» said Andrew Spencer, a research scientist at Alvine Pharmaceuticals who has experience at biotech companies and small start - ups.

«The key thing in that business that may drive M&A is the world is getting smaller, with shrinking distance between producer and consumer — globalization and world population shifts — think of the food business as a long continuum starting with biotech, leading to seed production, leading to crop inputs and that's where you see some activity in Canada in fertilizer in terms of potash,» explains Woollcombe.