The Pfizer Incubator (TPI)

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After which Pfizer plans to either acquire the companies or set them free to decide their own fate.
All have scientific co-founders with faculty appoints at the University of California, San Diego, or the Scripps Research Instit
The incubator is one of several approaches that Pfizer uses (including its venture fund) to tap outside technologies
The incubator typically backs its startups to the tune of $2 million annually for two years
TPI has a funding commitment from Pfizer of $10 million per year for the five years beginning in 2007
TPI houses three companies—antibody-screening firm Fabrus, RNA-drug-delivery startup RGo Bioscience, and cancer-drug-discovery f