Douglas Crawford, an architect of the University of California's effort to swing biotechnology from academic lab benches to commercial partners and spinouts, has left UC to work full time at a public-private incubator and early-stage venture fund firm he was instrumental in creating.
As associate director of QB3 — or the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences — Crawford's fingerprints are on scores of life sciences companies that have set up shop or spun out of the institute's four…Douglas Crawford, an architect of the University of California's effort to swing biotechnology from academic lab benches to commercial partners and spinouts, has left UC to work full time at a public-private incubator and early-stage venture fund firm he was instrumental in creating.
As associate director of QB3 — or the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences — Crawford's fingerprints are on scores of life sciences companies that have set up shop or spun out of the institute's four…