TGen Spinout Catapult Launches with $14M Grant

Jan 16, 2009

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) — Catapult Bio, an Arizona non-profit focused on funding and providing services to regional biotechnology startups, has used a five-year, $14 million grant from the Los Angeles company Abraxis BioScience to fund its official launch.

Catapult Bio, which arose out of the Translational Genome Research Institute’s TGen Accelerators program, is aimed at developing research discoveries into new businesses that accelerate life sciences commercialization.

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