Bryan Renk grew up with a family seed business, directed licensing activities at one of the worldâ??s biggest academic technology transfer organizations and has overseen a company that makes feed additives with chicken antibodies. Now heâ??s been tapped to grow the organization that represents the stateâ??s biotechnology industry.
Renk, former licensing director at WARF, was named Friday as the executive director of BioForward, which has about 250 member companies, about half of which are biotech firms.