QB3, University of California's research institute and life science accelerator, loses its associate director as Douglas Crawford steps down.
Douglas Crawford has resigned from his position as associate director at QB3, University of California’s research institute and life science accelerator.
Crawford was the associate director for QB3 at University of California San Francisco, one of the accelerator’s three locations – the other being University of California Berkeley and University of California Santa Cruz.
While working at QB3, Crawford co-founded QB3’s venture fund Mission Bay Capital in 2009 and established its San Francisco incubator QB3@953 in 2013 with QB3 director Regis Kelly. Mission Bay Capital provides early-stage capital to support entrepreneurial scientists with the creation of companies.
Crawford will remain as the managing director of the fund as well as retain an oversight position at QB3@953.
Kelly said: ” “QB3 is immensely proud of its part in creating QB3@953 and MBC and remains deeply committed to their ongoing success. But they have now grown large and complex enough that they require full-time management.
“QB3 looks forward to continuing to work with the two companies since we share a common goal.”
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