The Missing Companies.
The idea for the MIT Faculty Founder Initiative stemmed from a research project Sangeeta Bhatia conducted alongside Susan Hockfield, MIT Corporation life member, MIT president emerita, and professor of neuroscience, and Nancy Hopkins, professor emerita of biology.
The team discovered that there could have been forty additional biotech firms today.
“What that means is 40 more potential medicines. The societal impact of that is really important. It’s a lost opportunity,”
— Sangeeta Bhatia