Cosat and the Rogers Family Foundation jointly fund the Bridging-the-Gap programme, which provides nearly $1m a year for targeted research designed to move projects further along the path to commercialization at the University of California.

US-based medical company Johnson & Johnson’s Corporate Office of Science & Technology (Cosat) has funded two research groups to help start biomedical companies at the University of California.

Cosat and the Rogers Family Foundation jointly fund the Bridging-the-Gap programme, which provides nearly $1m a year for targeted research designed to move projects further along the path to commercialization at the University.

The first project, to develop a synthetic capsule for the treatment of Type I diabetes, is directed by Shuvo…