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Stanford’s SPARK program has established a process that advances academic discoveries to industry partnerships or investigator-initiated clinical trials and provides training that enhances career opportunities for its graduates.
Following the publication of AlphaFold2 and RoseTTAFold in 2021, the field of protein structure prediction has moved quickly to incorporate these advances into protein engineering.
Intellectual property safeguards should be more widely incorporated into the bilateral contracts that underpin the translational R&D process to preserve the public interest, especially where public funds and resources have spearheaded the innovation process.