Daria Mochly-Rosen
IN A NUTSHELL
Founder and Director of Stanford University’s SPARK program Daria Mochly-Rosen shares how she has liberated potential drug discoveries from academic research to industry, and discusses the countless, surprising lessons she has learned along the way.
ABOUT DARIA
Founder and Director of Stanford University’s SPARK program, Daria Mochly-Rosen helps academics navigate the so-called “valley of death” between drug discovery and development. Daria founded The SPARK Program at Stanford in 2006 after having to leave academia to start a pharmaceutical company to translate her groundbreaking protein kinase C research into cardiovascular therapeutics. Challenging the academic dogma of how scientific discoveries should reach the pharmaceutical industry, the SPARK model has been implemented internationally and has resulted in a book about drug development from academia. Currently a Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology at Stanford, Daria is originally from Israel, where she received her doctorate in chemical immunology.
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A Practical Guide to Drug Development in Academia: The SPARK Approach
Mochley-Rosen D, Grimes K (Ed). Springer. 2016; 165(4):765-70.
Partnership enables discoveries to move from bench to bedside
Raghunath, R. Stanford Medicine, 2014.
SPARK program helps researchers cross the “valley of death” between drug discovery and development
Steakley, L. Scope, 2014.
A Practical Guide to Drug Development in Academia - The Spark Approach
Mochly-Rosen, D. Ed. Grimes K. Springer International Publishing, 2014.
Stanford program gives discoveries a shot at commercialization.
May, M. Nature Medicine Blog [Internet], 2011.
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SPARKs Fly When Stanford Profs Talk BD with Industry Leads
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How to move academic innovation to the next level?
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SPARK program helps researchers cross the “valley of death” between drug discovery and development
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