The GBBC receives sponsorship from the University of Georgia Research Foundation.....
The Center for Applied Genetic Technologies

The Georgia BioBusiness Center : 111 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA 30605
Margaret Wagner Dahl, Director of Business and Economic Development
phone : 706-583-8209 fax : 706-583-0881 e-mail: mwd@uga.edu

Director

Margaret Wagner Dahl is the Director of Research Development and Technology Alliances at the University of Georgia, a position created and supported in collaboration with the Georgia Research Alliance. In this role, she serves concurrently as the director of The Georgia BioBusiness Center. Prior to coming to UGA in July 1999, she was director of operations at the Austin Technology Incubator as well as the director of technology relations at Jenkens and Gilchrist, a premier Austin law firm. Previously, she was the assistant and acting director of the University of Washington Office of Technology Transfer in Seattle. Her career began with ten years of private sector experience in the technology sector, including positions with multinational pharmaceutical companies Pharmacia and Organanon Teknika. She has also created two successful startup companies in affiliation with the Irish Development Authority. In 2002, Ms. Dahl was one of five finalists for the Woman of the Year in Technology Awards sponsored by the Technology Association of Georgia and Women in Technology.

Guiding Principles

The Center offers assistance in three areas:

• sharpening focus on customers, markets, channels and stakeholders,
• facilitating connections to funding, partnership opportunities, business expertise and University resources
• creating a positive business setting through physical location, intellectual stimulation and personal relationships.

Georgia BioBusiness Center and UGARF

The Georgia BioBusiness Center is funded by UGA resources as part of UGA’s commitment to economic development involving the University's research enterprise. The Georgia BioBusiness Center was created to accelerate the growth and sustainability of Athens-based bioscience startup companies through a residential program structured and supported by UGA.

Location 

The Georgia BioBusiness Center is located at 111 Riverbend Road, off of College Station Road, just past the bi-pass and diagonally across from UGA’s Animal Dairy Sciences building.