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Before Christophe Echeverri decided to spin his postdoctoral project into a biotech company called Cenix BioScience in 1999, he hesitated, fearing the switch from lab coat to business suit was a "move over to the dark side." Echeverri had been invited to turn the research he was doing at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg into a commercial venture under the well-endowed wing of the Max Planck Institute, Germany's elite scientific research body. Echeverri didn't hesitate long, seeing the opportunity as a once-in-a-lifetime chance to prove that his theories actually worked. So when...
...creation of Cenix was not only a big switch for Canadian-born Echeverri, who loved the world of pure science. It also marks a shift for the venerable Max Planck Institute, which in Dresden is charting a new course to make Germany a major player in biotech research and development. Cenix is steaming in the right direction. "We're part of the wave of development that happened when the government and investment community made the push into biotech," says Echeverri, 35, his dark eyes darting to his cell phone to check text messages. "This year we're going to make...
...entrepreneurs goes the other way. Cenix demonstrates how far Germany has come over the past few years as it tries to promote the creation of science-based businesses and stem an outflow of its best minds to the U.S. Max Planck had been a "large, slow-moving beast," says Echeverri, but when the idea for Cenix was born, it was Max Planck that acted as the midwife and pushed Echeverri into becoming an entrepreneur. "Cenix Bioscience would never have come into being were it not for the extraordinary assistance and support that both the company and I personally received from...
...combined start-up expertise of Ulrich Mahr (Garching Innovation), Torsten Mummenbrauer (Garching Innovation) and Ivan Baines (Max Planck Institute-CBG, Dresden), together with the forward-looking and innovative attitude within the MPG toward spinning out companies, are the factors that really contributed to the successful launch of Cenix. Christophe Echeverri CEO/CSO, Cenix BioScience GmbH Dresden, Germany
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