A base camp for biotech entrepreneurs: why startups are flocking to this incubator in Bengaluru

After spending two decades as a doctor and directing clinical trials for US-based Cenduit, Jogin Desai certainly knew a thing or two about getting medical products to the market. Yet the first proposal of his cell-therapy startup, Eyestem Research, for a biotech grant from the government was rejected two years ago. Bagging a Biotechnology Ignition Grant was by no means easy, but many young scientists with no entrepreneurial experience were