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Biotech's New Rules: Tight Capital, Hard Science, AI, and Survival in 2026
Doug Crawford, Ph.D., is the founder of MBC BioLabs and also a Managing General Partner of Mission BioCapital. Doug's goal is to help entrepreneurial scientists create successful startups. His dream…
Cold Plasma Meets Machine Learning: The SirenOpt Story of Solving Manufacturing's Nanoscale Blind Spot
Jared O'Leary, Ph.D., is the co-founder and CEO of SirenOpt, and Ali Mesbah, Ph.D. is his cofounder and also his former PhD advisor. Ali is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at UC Berkeley. …
Designing the Future of Drug Delivery: How AI is Solving RNA's Biggest Challenge
Yogev Debbi and Prof Avi Schroeder (Technion Israel Institute of Technology), co-founded Mana bio along with Dr. Kira Radinsky and Roy Nevo. They are leveraging data, machine learning and high…
Solving the CRISPR delivery problem using a proprietary peptide-based platform
Dana Foss and Ross Wilson are the cofounders of Editpep, a biotech startup focused on developing CRISPR-based therapeutics. They are using a proprietary peptide-based delivery platform that enables…
Altitude Lab Fund- Supporting healthcare founders in challenging times
Chandana Haque is the Executive Director of Altitude Lab, a healthcare startup accelerator building a community of diverse entrepreneurs in Utah. Altitude Lab was cofounded in 2020 by Chandana and…
Partnering to accelerate therapeutics: A primer on forming alliances and their management
Monica Rosoff, the founder and CEO of LBBAL™ Alianza. Prior to launching Alianza, Monica was a partnering executive with roles of increasing seniority at Genentech, Gilead, Kite and Exelixis. Over…
From Pitches to Stories: Transforming Complex Ideas into Engaging Narratives
Zack Shildhorn is an investing Partner at venture firm Lux Capital. He played multiple key roles that helped the firm scale from less than $100M to more than $4B in assets under management. After…
Turning great science into impactful medicine: Lessons from Corey Goodman, Pioneer in Science and Venture Capital
Corey Goodman, Ph.D., is the managing partner of venBio, a venture capital firm he cofounded in 2011. venBio already has 7 FDA approved drugs on the market, saving and improving lives. Corey spent 25…
Pushing Boundaries: Abhishek Tripathi's Experience with NASA, SpaceX, UC Berkeley and Startups
Abhishek Tripathi, is the Director of Mission operations of the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. Abhi is also the Chair of the Air and Space track startups at…
Lessons from Evolution of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem at UC Berkeley
Richard Lyons, Ph.D., is the Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Innovation & Entrepreneurship Officer, at the University of California, Berkeley. Rich is an economist and the former dean of the…
Civilization Ventures: Lessons learned from founding, exiting and applying them to support founders as an investor
Shahram Seyedin-Noor is the founder and managing partner at Civilization Ventures. Shahram received a JD from Harvard and worked at Wilson Solsinis and Cooley before going into investment banking at…
Humba Ventures: Investing in Deep Tech Startups with Engineering Focus
Leo Polovets is the Co-founder and General Partner at Susa Ventures. Leo focuses on enterprise software and technical products at Susa. About two years ago, He also started Humba Ventures, a fund…
Berkeley Skydeck- Catalyzing the growth of deep tech startups at the world's number one ranked public university.
Caroline Winnett is the Executive Director of Berkeley Skydeck, a startup accelerator at the University of California, Berkeley. Skydeck started as a mentoring space in 2012 and soon translated into…
Medtech Innovator and Biotools Innovator: accelerator for medical device, digital health and diagnostic companies
Paul Grand is the founder and CEO; Ayelet Marom is the Program Director for BioTools Innovator, which focuses specifically on biotools; and Jim West is the Associate Director, BioTools Innovator, who…
Metcela - Treating chronic organ diseases using a novel fibroblast-based technology
Kenichi Nogami is the co-founder and CEO of Metcela, a clinical-stage biotechnology startup pioneering the research and development of fibroblast and stem cell-based therapy for chronic heart…
Lessons learned from a scientist entrepreneur turned investor
Caleb Bell III, Ph.D., is a venture partner at Corundum Systems Biology and also the President of Corundum convergence institute. We talk about the founding story of Bell biosystems; how they were…
NAMUH - Attempt at closing the gap between infant formula and human breast milk
Chaeyoung Shin was the Co-founder and CEO of NAMUH, a startup focused on developing yeast fermentation technologies to produce human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs). HMOs are crucial, fiber-equivalent…
NASA fueling innovation through SBIR/STTR, Awards & Prizes
Jenn Gustetic is the Director of Early Stage Innovations and Partnerships at NASA. In this episode of Lab to startup, we will learn about various funding mechanisms that NASA provides to support…
Independent directors for startups
Ryan Caldbeck, is the COO of Dune, a powerful analytics platform for blockchain research. It can be used to query, extract, and visualize vast amounts of data on the Ethereum blockchain. Ryan was…
Feeding our astronauts - Reflections of a NASA food scientist
Vickie Kloeris is a food scientist with an out of this world career. She worked at NASA in space food systems for 34 years. She served as the NASA manager of the Shuttle first and then the…
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