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Index
■ Week in Review: PG. 6
■ The List: PG. 8
■ Deal Watch: PG. 9
■ Opinion & Commentary: PG. 10
■ Poll: PG. 10
Building a Fan Base
Hartford Yard Goats General Manager Tim Restall has
spent the winter and early spring trying to sell the
team, and tickets, to anyone who will listen. PG. 3
Promising Venture
A Hartford startup is gaining investor interest for its
cloud-based software that is a mix of Facebook and
Angie's List for real estate agents. PG. 5
The big 'C' in CT's bioscience ambitions: Collaboration
By Gregory Seay
gseay@HartfordBusiness.com
A
t any given time, dozens of research
scientists at UConn and Yale, and at
other Connecticut universities, are
investigating and churning out a myriad of
ideas that could someday improve health
outcomes for millions worldwide.
So great is the flow of potential game-
changing, wealth-building ideas for new
drugs and therapeutic treatments that the
academic sector, much less the bioscience
marketplace, can barely keep pace, Con
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necticut bioscience experts say.
The gulf is especially wide when it comes
to research needed to validate a therapeutic
concept so that it someday draws the atten-
tion — and wallets — of venture capitalists
and pharmaceutical makers willing to shep-
herd it to market, a process that can con-
sume years and tens of millions of dollars.
Connecticut, however, has taken steps to
pull its largest research universities — UConn
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UConn professor/bioentrepreneur Dennis Wright
is co-founder of the Program in Innovative
Therapeutics for Connecticut's Health, or PITCH.
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