FaegreBD Consulting's health and biosciences team works with research universities to develop and craft funding opportunities with federal agencies and move discovery and innovation into development through transfer and collaboration arrangements with early-phase development entities. Our professionals' knowledge spans the public and private sectors, assuring that mission and business needs are advanced in a dynamic and changing environment. Specific examples of our work include:

Academic Research Center Funding

FaegreBD Consulting works with large universities, medical centers, statewide biotech enterprises and others in the field to influence, identify and secure critical funding. Funding sources include both public and private grantors and mechanisms to secure funding for public private partnerships, collaborative research and development agreements (CRADAs), and joint ventures with industry and nonprofit philanthropic funders.

Translational Medicine

With our deep understanding of biomedical innovation, the FaegreBD Consulting team plays a critical role in helping clients move from bench to bedside. This work involves strategic planning, identification of key collaborators, and promotion of our client's unique abilities through each step of the research translation process. We are experienced in designing the new tools of translation, such as disease registries, biospecimen repositories, and inner-institutional and cross-institutional arrangements for data sharing.

New Technology Transfers

To enable innovation in academic medicine, FaegreBD Consulting brings pioneering ideas to even the most traditional technology transfer offices. We work with clients to establish a path forward through sound partnership, exclusivity and commercialization agreements.

Public-Private Partnerships

In today's economic and political climate, public-private partnerships are a reliable alternative to "going it alone." FaegreBD Consulting has guided many clients into fruitful cross-sector affiliations by bringing the right players to the table, establishing the share vision and value for the collaboration, and managing and accelerating the return to the partners.

Academia's Role in Drug Discovery & Development

Since 2008, FaegreBD Consulting has been charting new ground by helping to define academia's growing role in drug discovery and development. Working directly with academic researchers, our team plays a direct role in bringing business principles and project management into the academic lab, identifying and engaging collaborators, and designing workable and novel technology transfer arrangements that maximize the opportunity for early phase drug development on the academic research campus.