Thirty years ago, the idea of starting a biotech venture in Connecticut was rare, if not unheard of. The obvious biotech hotbeds in the United States were in Boston and South San Francisco — famously dubbed “Genetown” and “Biotech Bay” among industry professionals and job seekers.
But in recent years, that perception has changed — now, the thriving biotech ecosystem in New Haven has completely saturated available biotech lab spaces.
Yale’s Office of Cooperative Research, or OCR, helps Yale faculty commercialize their research and put their technology on the market. With the combined efforts of Yale faculty, OCR, design firms and venture capitalists in Connecticut, 40 to 50 new biotech ventures have emerged in the New Haven area in the past 10 years. more