1. February 28th, 2014
HOUSING COMPANIES IN A RESEARCH
CENTER:
THE CIPF EXPERIENCE
Óscar David Sánchez
Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe

2. 1. The CIPF
2. Housing companies at the CIPF
1. Motivation
2. Approach
3. Goals

3. THE CENTER
• Private non-for-profit foundation
– Attached to the Regional Ministry of Health of
Valencia
• Basic and translational Biomedical research
– Genes, targets, molecular and cellular processes
– Nanomedicine, regenerative medicine and
computational medicine (-omics and biomedical
imaging)
– Translational: cancer, rare diseases, metabolic
diseases, aging and cognitive and functional declining
– Scientific and technological expertise applied to:
agrofood, environment, cosmetics…

4. SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMES
• Developing new diagnostic and therapeutio aproach for high
prevalence/impact diseasesAdvanced Therapies
• Using genomic data to gain insight in the processes by which
the genotype shapes the phenotype, with particular interests in
the study of disease mechanisms
Computational
Genomics
• Investigating at the molecular and cellular levels the
mechanisms underlying the essential cellular processes and
their changes in human pathologies
Molecular
Mechanisms
• Advancing in the biological and clinical knowledge of the RD,
promoting research on diagnostic tests, biomarkers and
therapies in the context of genomics and personalized medicine
Rare and Genetic
Diseases
• Basic and translational research on cognitive, motor, sleep and
circadian rhythms alterations in different pathological situations
Neurological
Impairment

5. RESULTS
• ≈ 100 research projects/year
• ≈ 100 international publications/year
• Growing patent portfolio
• 3 spin-off companies

6. THE FACT
Hey! You’re a research center!
You’re not a technology park!
Why are you housing companies?

7. THE QUESTION
What does a (new) biotech
company need?
1. Money
2. A good team
3. Sound science
4. Technology

8. OUR APPROACH
We offer to companies what we
offer to (our) research labs
1. Lab space and equipment
2. Access to technological services and
expertise
3. Collaborative environment with
research groups

9. THE MODEL
Collaboration Agreement
• Monthly fee depending on what the
company is using
• Technological and scientific
infrastructure as a service
• If a company needs something,
they ask for it and they get it

10. THE OFFER
• Office and lab space
• Scientific equipment
• Technological services: animal
facilities, cytomics, screening,
genomics and genetics, confocal and
electron microscopy, proteomics, NMR,
GMP facilities…
• Participation in research and
innovation projects

11. OUR GOALS
• Put together early stage spin-off/start-
up with big/leading companies
• Aligned with the CIPF research
mission
• Make technology transfer happen:
– CIPF  Company
– Company + CIPF  Market

12. THANKS!