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About Us
MetaCyte Business Lab, a for-profit subsidiary of the UofL Foundation, is a unique and vibrant health and life science incubator.
Working with the UofL Office of Technology Transfer and Nucleus, MetaCyte is creating a seamless commercialization process that will yield viable, operating companies with a combined value in excess of $1B by 2020.
In partnership with the inventor and co-founder, MetaCyte creates, launches, and manages portfolio companies, acquiring an equity position in each. By avoiding a fee-for-service model, precious capital is freed up and directed to company growth.
MetaCyte's team of management and industry experts gives MetaCyte portfolio companies a competitive advantage. The MetaCyte staff serves as a developing company's management team, focused on meeting early development milestones and fundraising, while the scientific co-founder focuses on research and development.
Since 2002, MetaCyte staff has secured more than $16M in funding for its portfolio companies, which has created in excess of 40 high-paying jobs, and returned more than $11M to UofL for additional research.
Working with the UofL Office of Technology Transfer and Nucleus, MetaCyte's goal is to transform life science discoveries and inventions from the mind to the marketplace to improve the physical and economic health of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
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