Healthcare company-building profile
Center for Life Science Ventures (McGovern Family Center for Venture Development in the Life Sciences)
Cornell University
IncubatorIncubatorNot publicly documentedActive
Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Incubator
- Program category
- Incubator
- Organization
- Cornell University
- Organization type
- Not publicly documented
- Location
- Ithaca, New York
- Company stage served
- Research or idea stage
- Cohort or participation model
- Client company residency with milestone-based graduation rather than fixed cohorts
- Investment or funding offered
- Not publicly documented
- Published investment terms
- Not publicly documented
- Equity or fee model
- Not publicly documented
- Clinical or hospital connection
- Not publicly documented
- Application status
- Active
- Founded
- 2008
Public description
About the program
The Center for Life Science Ventures is Cornell's incubator for life science startups emerging from the university research community, founded in 2008 and based in Weill Hall. It accelerates client companies' R&D, validates their business plans and strengthens management teams so they can attract outside investment and reach self-sufficiency. It also runs an Executives in Residence program and is supported by Cornell's research office, the Institute of Biotechnology and NYSTAR.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
Life sciencesbiotechtherapeuticsmedical technologydiagnostics
- Category: Incubator
- Program structure: Client company residency with milestone-based graduation rather than fixed cohorts
Publicly documented people and network
Program leadership and alumni
- Notable alumni named in public materials
- Persista Bio; TETmedical; Kanvas Biosciences; REEgen; RETRN Bio
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