PITCH is a a collaboration between Yale and UConn to help academic projects cross the Valley of Death between public and private sector development activities. PITCH aims to:

• Provide a streamlined translational pathway for researchers to convert their discoveries to new therapeutics.
• Increase the number of biotech companies in the State by encouraging faculty entrepreneurism.
• Employ the latent pool of pharmaceutical talent statewide.
• Establish a new paradigm for robust, synergistic research programs between Yale and UConn, and ultimately to other institutions in the State.
• Recruit additional venture investment to the State.
• Put Connecticut on the map for a new paradigm in drug discovery.

For more information, download the faculty presentation or visit the PITCH website at: http://pitch.yale.edu

First Round Applications are due on October 1, 2015. Applications should be sent to jackie.mcgrath@yale.edu and an application receipt will be sent as confirmation.  Access the application here.   For additional questions, contact Dennis Wright at dennis.wright@uconn.edu