"If you get everybody satisfied with the amount of funding in an area, you've got a problem."

Bob More, general partner with Frazier Healthcare Ventures

"Most of the nonprofits have a higher tolerance for risk than any investor."

Greg Simon, senior vice president for patient engagement at Pfizer Inc.

"It's better to own 1 percent of something that makes a billion than 100 percent of something that makes nothing."

David Collier, managing partner at CMEA Capital, on why firms should be willing to farm out more work, even if it means they have to give away from rights

"We're just going to bootstrap our way up."

Lena Basile, president and CEO of Neumedicines Inc.