Director to ‘connect dots’ for Delaware biotech companies [Video]

NEWARK — While Delaware has long been known to attract some of the top talent in life sciences, some of its rising companies have struggled to break out into the market.

That’s why the University of Delaware and Delaware Bioscience Association (Delaware Bio) have once again come together to jointly fund a director of university and industry relations of life

sciences to help support the growth of new and mid-stage biotech companies through stronger ties between the university and the business community.

UD and Delaware Bio announced that they had hired Nicole Merli, who is well-versed in biotech companies and regulators through her past career stops, for the job. Funding for this position was also enabled by the National Science Foundation’s inaugural Accelerating Research Translation program.

“Anywhere you find a thriving life science ecosystem there is also sublime, effective collaboration between industry and research universities,” Delaware Bio President and CEO …