Our colleagues at SPARK Stanford have published about the SPARK approach in the journal Nature Biotechnology. Congratulations to Kim, J.S., Kargotich, S., Lee, S.H. et al.
Professor Daria Mochly-Rosen the last author of the publication started the SPARK approach at Stanford University in 2006. The SPARK model was shared with over 60 academic institutions on six continents. SPARK-BIH was the first European site and will celebtrate its 10 year anniversary in the upcoming year.
Over the past 18 years, SPARK at Stanford has a ~50% success rate: 51 startup companies founded, 28 licenses to existing companies and 21 investigator-initiated clinical trials.
Link to publication: SPARKing academic technologies across the valley of death. Nat Biotechnol42, 339–342 (2024) (free acceess e.g. via Charité)
Link to SPARK Stanford
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