[tlawal87]

Hi Aaron & Michael, There is a 20-year-backlog of life-saving therapies that are left sitting in university laboratories untested and 30 million Americans suffering from untreatable rare diseases who have no idea these potential cures exist.

My best friend and I are developing a medical research discovery platform. We allow people passionate about a condition to discover, promote, and eventually fund cutting-edge research.

We've been working to seed the platform & overcome the regulatory barriers that have previously prevented success in this space. How can we balance the slow bureaucratic requirements of university administrators to correctly implement our solution with the early rapid growth needed for our startup?

[danieltillett]

It sounds like you are trying to build a kickstarter version of the NIH. The way to get this going is to offer real money to both the academics and the administrators - once you do this then they will come running to you with open arms.

Can I suggest that you spend the next month reading Derek Lowe’s blog “In the Pipeline” [1] (especially all the comments). You will learn why so much never makes it out of the lab.

1. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/

[srunni]

Another excellent resource is the LifeSciVC blog:

https://lifescivc.com/

https://lifescivc.com/category/from-the-trenches/ (the posts here aren't included on the main page)

[srunni]

I've been interested in this space for a long time and would love to chat with you - my email address is in my profile.

[mwseibel]

Why do you need to work with university administrators at all?

[tlawal87]

The majority of research conducted in the US is at academic centers. Scientists employed by these institutions have been given strict rules by administrators on how/whether they can solicit input or disclose IP generated at their workplaces.

[srunni]

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act