SATUS Venture Capital and Jagiellonian Centre of Innovation (JCI)

BioVentures Institute Sp. z o.o. has accepted a venture capital entry by SATUS Venture Capital and Jagiellonian Centre of Innovation (JCI). JCI is a business broker in bio partnering and collaboration in Poland. JCI also administers the Life Science Cluster Krakow & Polish Biotechnology Platform. They are an association of member companies and organizations (including Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland), which represents the biggest commercial potential for biosciences in Poland. SATUS VC is a group of commercial entities managing seed and vc capitals, focusing on highly innovative technological companies, with a potentially high investment return, mainly in the area of ITC, biotechnology and engineering.

The scientific cooperation

The ongoing scientific cooperation between BioVentures Institute Sp. z o.o., Thermo Fisher Scientific and Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdansk, has brought further discoveries in the area of new genetic engineering molecular tools generation. Results have been published in a recognized scientific journal (“Three-stage biochemical selection: cloning of prototype class IIS/IIC/IIG restriction endonuclease-methyltransferase TsoI from the thermophile Thermus scotoductus.” BMC Molecular Biology, 2014, 14:17.).

Funds established

INVESTIN programme in cooperation with BioVentures Institute Sp. z o.o. has established two funds for advanced molecular biotechnology D.Sc. (habilitation) candidates from The Dept. of Chemistry, University of Gdansk.