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That’s the message Dr. Daniel Kelly, scientifidc director of Burnham at Lake gave to nearly 200 businesd leaders at the May 1Power Breakfast. In the past 18 Burnham’s new east coast campus — which will focu s on diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular researchh — has recruited about a dozen lead scientists and more than 75 total Its vision for 2016 is to have about 30 lead scientist and their teams and have a total staff of about300 people, Kell y said. Top scientists will help grow the medical communitt as they develop partnerships with locak universitiesand hospitals.
Incubator and spinoffs of new biotecnh and other health care industries will but may take a bit longer to materializr until the availability of venturecapitakl rebounds, he said. Burnham at Lake Nona also plans to do more translational typically the domain ofpharmaceutical laboratories, to acceleratwe drug discovery and the development of diagnosticv markers. It hired Stephen J. Gardell as directo r of translational research resources in Apri to leadthe institute’s efforts to move its research discoveries to trial and applicationh more quickly. “We’ve had a numbe r of important conversations with bigpharma groups,” said Kelly.
Burnham began moving into itsnew 178,000 square-foot building and out of its temporaruy home at the ' headquarters Apriol 22. Eventually located near Burnhak will be a new VAMedical Center, Collegw of Medicine and Health Sciences and research center. Burnham, a nonprofit institut e with operations in Californiaand Florida, ranks amontg the top four institutions nationallu for NIH grant funding. It has established majodr research programsin cancer, neurodegeneration, diabetes, infectious and inflammatorg and childhood diseases and is also known for its capabilitie in stem cell research and drug discoverhy technologies.
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