Turn Raw Tech Into Revenue: Eugene Buff’s 30-Year Playbook for Open Innovation

Aggaeus · Jan 30, 2026 · 56m

For 30+ years, Eugene Buff has been the behind-the-scenes “bridge” between breakthrough science and the companies that actually bring it to market—from university tech transfer offices drowning in inventions to global corporates hunting for the next edge. He’s a MD/PhD geneticist, a former Harvard Medical School researcher whose papers still get cited… and the rare operator who walked away from NIH funding to pursue commercialization full-time.

In this conversation with Haggai Klorman Eraqi, Eugene tells the story of how he realized the Nobel line was “too long,” and reinvented himself as an…