Entrepreneurship

Published online: 22 March 2004, doi:10.1038/bioent796

Company founders: voices of experience

*Laura DeFrancesco is Nature Biotechnology's Senior Editor for News & Features.

Colin Dourish profile

Most recent position: senior vice president, research, and CSO of Vernalis, professor of psychopharmacology at the University of Durham, visiting professor of neuroscience and psychological medicine at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, and a William Pitt Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, UK

Location: Winnersh, UK

Company focus: structure-based drug discovery

Other positions held: CEO of Cerebrus (acquired by Vernalis in 1999), director of neuropharmacology at Wyeth

Words of wisdom: "The key thing I have learned over the past six-to-seven years is the importance of having enough cash in the bank."

Note: A transcript of the original interview is available as supplementary information on the Nature Biotechnology website.