Washington Research Foundation

Washington Research Foundation & WRF Capital | 747 followers on LinkedIn. WRF supports research and scholarship in Washington state, with a focus on life sciences and enabling technologies. | Washington Research Foundation (WRF) supports research and scholarship in Washington state, with a focus on life sciences and enabling technologies. WRF was founded in 1981 to assist universities and other nonprofit research institutions in Washington with the commercialization and licensing of their technologies. WRF is one of the foremost technology transfer and grant-making organizations in the nation, having earned more than $445 million in licensing revenue for the University of Washington and providing over $124 million in grants to the state's research institutions to date.