1. Bioscience-Based Economic Development:
Innovation and Investment in UCONN
Mostafa Analoui, PhD
Executive Director of UConn Venture Development
Adj. Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Entrepreneurship

2. Life Expectancy & Health Spending per capita, 2013
Source: OECD Health Statistics 2015,

4. Quality of Death
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) published its report: “The 2015 Quality of Death Index”

5. Expenditure on retail pharmaceuticals per capita and as a share of GDP, 2013
Sources:

6. Where is the Waste?
Source:

7. Drug Development is Hard (2016 PhRMA)

8. R&D Investment as % of Sales
Source: Pham ND; NDP Analytics. IP-intensive manufacturing industries: driving US economic growth. growth Published March Accessed March 2016.

9. Biotech Ecosystem & Equilibrium
12/30/2018
Biotech Ecosystem & Equilibrium
$NIH$
University, Corporate
Discovery
Early Stage Biotech
$Corporate R&D$
$Foundations$
Jobs
Taxes
Taxes
Jobs
Surviving Biotechs
Jobs
Taxes
Jobs
IPO
Jobs
Products in Market
Taxes
Deal

10. CT Biomedical Research and Innovation

11. Employment Across Sectors
Source: Connecticut’s Economic Development Strategy , Spring 2014

12. Diversity of CT Bioscience Subsectors
Batelle/BIO State Bioscience Jobs, Investments and Innovation, 2014; Economic Digest, 2012;, Economic Modeling Specialists, Inc. 2016; CERC calculations

13. Unique Biomedical Eco-System
Higher Education
Corporate R&D
Clinical Excellence
Bioscience CT Initiative
Generating long term, sustainable economic growth based on bioscience research, innovation, entrepreneurship and commercialization
JAX
Connecticut Innovation

14. UCONN RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP:
DRIVING RESEARCH SUCCESS
Initiatives & Investments
Bioscience Connecticut – UConn Health
$864 million investment in genomics and personalized medicine
The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine located at UConn Health campus
Infrastructure projects, including research lab renovations, outpatient pavilion, tech incubator addition, and academic building improvements
Goal set to hire 50 new basic science/clinical faculty

15. UCONN RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP:
RESEARCH & DISCOVERY (Storrs/Regionals and UConn Health)
Over $260M annually in competitive grants from external sponsors and internal programs to:
Fund groundbreaking basic and applied research
Fuel new discoveries
Develop promising technologies
Support important scholarship & creative projects
Over 1,900 faculty fuel UConn and UConn Health’s growing research enterprise.

16. UConn Research Centers and Institues
UConn is home to over eighty-five Centers and Institutes that have been established to promote scholarly activity and/or support teaching, research, diversity or the outreach mission of the institution.
New/Growing Research Centers & Institutes (Sample)
National Bio-NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) Center at UConn Health
Single Cell Genomics Center (joint UConn/JAX)
Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP)
Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity
CT Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Institute for Systems Genomics
Center on Aging
Humanities Institute
CT Institute for Clinical & Translational Science

17. Entrepreneurship in UConn

18. Multidisciplinary and Team Sport

19. UConn Entrepreneurship Funds and Awards*
* Selective list

20. Technology Incubation Program (TIP) - Industry Mix
UConn TIP
Aerospace, Transportation & Defense
Consumer Products/ Animal Health
Green Technology & Green Energy
Biotech & Medical Devices
IT & Software
Development
Nanotechnology & Advanced Manufacturing

21. TIP Sample Portfolio Companies
BioPharma Works
3D Array
IC3D
Thetis Pharma
Avitus Orthopaedics
Azitra
Bioarray Genetics
CaroGen
Connecticut Children’s Medical Center
Diameter Health
Frequency Therapeutics
Health eSense
Cornovus
Atlas Labs
Mobile Sense Technologies
Oral Fluid Dynamics
ImStem Biotechnology
Lambda Vision Inc.
Lipid Genomics
mBiotics
Medisynergics
Mitotherapeutix Inc.
Nervomatrix
Reinesse
Shoreline Biome
Torigen
Agrivida
Biorasis
DuraBiotech
Mattershift Technology
HiFunda
MedFrame
Solutions Spray Technologies

22. Technology Incubation Program (TIP) Venture Funding
Notes: D&E 2016 – Agrivida $21M, Frequency $9M, Diameter $2M, CaroGen $2M; Agrivida $11M; Agrivida $13M, Nagare $11M

23. Innovation Partnership Building (IPB)
Targets Manufacturers
Attracts Large Corporations
Supports Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Supply Chain
Aligning Industry needs with UConn innovation and expertise
Systems Engineering
Advanced Manuf. & Materials
Energy Engineering
Biomedical Engineering & Sciences
The Innovation Partnership Building (IPB) connects industry partners and faculty experts in state-of-the-art labs to fuel scientific breakthroughs, advance new products and create high-paying jobs.