Opinion: UC helps drive California biotech; don't disinvest


University of California research innovations have helped Bay Area biotech companies usher in breakthroughs in cancer immunotherapy, disease prevention, vaccines, precision medicine and prosthetics while generating high-paying jobs and tax revenues for the Golden State. And so it's little wonder that Bay Area biotech leaders - especially those of us who graduated from UC campuses - are closely watching how Gov. Jerry Brown funds California's top-ranking research university system in the 2018-19 state budget.



from Biotech News