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Convergent Research
A mission control for frontier technology. To learn more about FROs, visit our website.
About Convergent Research
New types of organization are needed to accelerate scientific progress. Academic research groups and startup companies are essential to science and technology development. But there are some projects they just aren’t suited for. A university astronomy lab couldn’t have launched the Hubble Space Telescope on its own, nor would a venture-backed startup have built the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Hubble and CERN illustrate a common pattern in science: a need for projects that are bigger than an academic lab can undertake, more coordinated than a loose consortium or themed department, and not directly profitable enough to be a venture-backed startup or industrial R&D project. Focused Research Organizations (FROs) are a new type of scientific institution designed to fill this gap.
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Presence & Recognition
Convergent Research congratulated Anand Muthusamy on Melody FRO, a nonprofit research organization building open-source biosensing tools at the intersection of protein engineering, bioelectronics, and control theory.
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Partnerships
Convergent Research announced that Forest Neurotech is now Arbor Neuroscience, keeping supporting ARBOR as a Focused Research Organization.
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