Gail Bishop is doing all she can to avoid “the valley of death.” A fate to which Bishop — a professor of microbiology and internal medicine at the University of Iowa — said she has seen too many academics fall prey.
Bishop and her business partner and fellow UI scientist Tony Vanden Bush have created a medical technology they feel can be commercialized. (See “Lock and key” sidebar.)
However, the pair is faced with the quintessential problem of translating an idea from the lab into a business venture.
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