Anastasia Gamick, co-founder and COO of Convergent Research, explains how Focused Research Organizations (FROs) address critical scientific and technological bottlenecks that fall between academic research and commercial markets. Examples include E11 Bio for neural mapping at scale and [C]Worthy for carbon sequestration tools. FROs are purpose-built, time-limited entities that can focus on groundbreaking infrastructure problems with long time horizons — work that neither a startup nor a university lab can sustain.