Former BioMimetic Therapeutics CEO Sam Lynch and his wife, Leslie Wisner-Lynch, are pushing the foundation he launched a decade ago into a broader entrepreneurship and business incubation role.

BioTN Foundation has until now focused primarily on supporting STEM education efforts. With an expanded board and recently named executive director and board member Eric Elmquist, the group now plans to raise money to set up an accelerator focused on early-stage life sciences and health care technology ventures, which the Lynches contend Nashville’s health care ecosystem lacks the mechanisms and networks to properly support.