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A talent for tech transfer
April 2005
Lita Nelsen, for almost 20 years MIT's top technology transfer person, continues to build one of the most successful programs in the world.

Biotech's billion dollar officer
February 2005
Leveraging a background in vaccines and leadership skills learned in the Army, Wayne Hockmeyer made a mid-career shift and built a biotech juggernaut. He is now onto his third career.

Tech transfer's living legacy
October 2004
Howard Bremer, whose career has tracked with and influenced the development of university technology transfer initiatives, reflects on his path and where it has led both him and the evolving debate over use of federally funded inventions.

The money men
May 2003
Who are the super financiers of biotechnology?

California's Biogoddess
May 2003
Cindy Robbins-Roth, long a force in biotech publishing and consulting, reflects on her self-adopted mission to both nurture the growth of biotechnology and bring a little fun to the field.

Merlin's maestro
June 2002
Sir Chris Evans, the UK's leading bioentrepreneur, reflects on his evolution from lab rat to financial wizard.

The engineers of change
June 2002
Who are the super-entrepreneurs?

For success, focus your strengths
May 1998
Balancing opportunism with focused goals is perhaps the hardest lesson of all.