Case Western Reserve University President Edward M. Hundert has taken the helm of the board of directors of BioEnterprise Corp., a business formation, recruitment and acceleration company that supports the growth of early stage and emerging growth bioscience companies in Northeast Ohio,

Beginning last month, Hundert succeeded Bill R. Sanford as chairman of the corporation until November 2004.

"Along with my partners from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and University Hospitals Health System, I look forward to strengthening the ability of BioEnterprise to access capital and grow partnerships to help bioscience companies achieve phenomenal results and have an impact in Northeast Ohio and around the globe," Hundert said. "We have increased our individual institutional commitments to research and technology transfer in recent years. Those efforts are effectively building the pipeline of ideas and opportunities for business formation and acceleration. It is now time for us to fully utilize the extraordinary common partner we have in BioEnterprise."

Each of BioEnterprise's three member institutions appoint two directors from its executive staff or governing boards to serve on the board of directors. Each member institution's senior officer in charge of technology transfer serves as an ex-officio, non-voting member of the board. From Case, that member is Mark Coticchia, vice president for research and technology management,

Also from Case, Charles P. Bolton, chair of the university's board of trustees, will serve as a member of the BioEnterprise board.

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