CPRIT: “How do we measure success?”

Texas’ cancer-fighting agency asks: “How do we measure success?”

By James Drew
jdrew@dallasnews.com
5:38 pm on January 26, 2014

      

   

"Kripke’s predecessor, Dr. Alfred Gilman, referred to this debate in an email to a colleague on the day he announced his resignation in May, 2012, referring to some members of the Oversight Committee as the “we should spend much more money on commercialization people.” He did not name them.

That oversight committee is gone, swept away by the CPRIT reform bill that the legislature approved last year.

In December, a Travis County grand jury indicted CPRIT’s former chief commercialization officer, Jerald “Jerry” Cobbs on a felony charge. He is accused of deceiving two of his bosses by failing to disclose that a 2010 grant proposal from a Dallas biotechnology company was not reviewed and approved by the proper committees."