Sentences with phrase «biotech startups»

All his research and discussions led him to decide that he should take on the more traditional role of biotech startup founder, but he hasn't given up on «indie» science.

For most scientists, the move from being a postdoc in a university lab to taking a job with a promising biotech startup is the path to higher income.

While biotech startups are able to access seed money through private sources or government, many are unable to raise subsequent cash to grow.

A new biotech startup in Laval targeting an oral treatment for venous lower limb ulcers is launching with serious capital at its disposal...

Is China too enamored with biotech startups?

For biotech startup founder Piraye Yurttas Beim, leaving New York City is often tempting.

Big Pharma is increasingly looking to invest in innovative biotech startups, understanding the immense value they bring to the bottom line.

In the new issue of Inc., I talked to the billionaire venture capitalist about why he's been putting so much of his time and money into biotech startups, particularly those focused on health and human biology.

In late April, I had my next, and last, contact with Heinz while reporting this magazine feature on biotech startups backed by Peter Thiel, a group that included Cambrian Genomics.

And biotech startups like 23andMe expanded what we used to think was possible in terms of personal genetic knowledge.

Which brings up China's approach to its growing clusters of biotech startups mentioned up top — or, as I called it, the «science experiment.»

Later that year, Modern Meadow was born, a Nutley, New Jersey - based biotech startup that grows animal - free leather in a lab.

Top execs have always traded the comforts of big pharmaceutical companies to lead biotech startups.

(Boies is a rather busy hired gun right now; he's also working with embattled biotech startup Theranos.)

iCarbonX (碳云智能), a six - month old biotech startup that raised a 1 billion RMB (about $ 154 million USD) round of Series A funding, boosting the Shenzhen - based company to unicorn status with a valuation of $ 1 billion USD.

Gilead Sciences Inc. announced a partnership Monday with Alphabet Inc. biotech startup Verily that seeks to better understand three common and chronic health problems.

Ethicists and lawyers are now sprinkled throughout the group's many nooks, and several young biotech startups and software developers have expressed interest in GP - write.

Peter Kolchinsky writes about his experiences breaking into the business side of science and his work at Massachusetts - based RA Capital Associates, where he evaluates biotech startups.

A half - dozen biotech startups have raised more than $ 125 million in recent years to produce spider silk fibers, hoping to make high - strength, flexible textiles that are tough enough to stop bullets, yet flexible and breathable enough to be comfortable.

At the small biotech startup where she worked when her son was born, her bosses began to resent her need for pumping breaks, even though she continued to work on the phone or over email while pumping in her office, she says.

«Only 10 percent of biotech startups ever get to the clinical trial stage.

It was great to hear that it was planning to support biotech startups working on aging through its YC Bio program....

The incubator, which supports the growth of the science and technology sector of Maine's economy, was launched in response to the need for laboratory space, expertise and mentoring to help tech and biotech startups take their companies to the next level.

These days, he is CRISPRing RNA as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego, and is applying the same principals to therapeutics development at San Diego biotech startup Locana, of which he's co-founder and CTO.

During the development of my investment thesis I should have given more weight to management's background and precluded the investment because top managers had NOT previously been involved in a SUCCESSFUL small, stand - alone biotech startup.

Alex Mashinsky's Governing Dynamics, a U.S. - Israeli venture fund investing into Israeli biotech startups, AI, cybersecurity and energy to scale up in the U.S., has taken MicroMoney in as a strategic partner, instrumental

The corporate world of big pharma and fast - moving biotech startups couldn't be better disposed to hearing from you.

In April this year it announced a $ 280 million fund focused on seeding and nurturing biotech startups.

In the last three years, Atlas Ventures have been a source of biotech startup capital, launching 20 new companies covering a range of different indications and therapies.

As we've seen, big pharma is increasingly backing innovative biotech startups, from buying into cutting edge gene technologies to investing in personalised medicine.

The two watershed events for biotech startups were the Bayh - Dole Act of 1980 and the Orphan Drug Act of 1983.

The biotech startup recently added nearly $ 4 million from Silicon Valley venture capital firm Data Collective to a smaller seed round.

What that means is biotech startups will be able to afford this high - tech equipment, and with it, they'll be able to pinpoint the genetic mutations that cause certain diseases.

It's further proof of the public markets» unrelenting interest in biotech startups — the health care industry produced the highest number of IPOs in 2013.

«If anything, the flow of people to biotech startups may accelerate,» says Erik Gordon, a clinical assistant professor at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, «because that's where they can make big stuff happen.»

With a biotech startup, it may seem the potential is all in the science, but investor Amy Schulman, a venture capital partner at Polaris Partners, which led SQZ's $ 5 million funding round, says the main reason she decided to put money in SQZ is because of Sharei, even though he's young and had never started a company before.

A few months ago, I wrote about the intriguing trend toward «re-launching» biotech startups that had been recently acquired by Big Pharma or Big Biotech — minus, of course, whatever promising drug candidates had prompted the acquisition in the first place.

Among its suggestions was government support for more than 100 biotech startups, a move it said would help boost the nation's share of the global biotech market from the 1.2 % recorded in 2025 to 5 % by 2025.

La Jolla's Synthorx has raised $ 63 million to make cancer drugs from a partly artificial life form, the biotech startup said Monday.

Babel Ventures, a Silicon Valley firm founded in 2017 by Bárbara Kunde Minuzzi, immigrant Latina entrepreneurial investor, announced $ 30 million raised to invest in biotech startups.

iCarbonX, a biotech startup raised a 1 billion RMB (about $ 154 million USD) round of series A funding with a valuation of $ 1 billion USD last April.

Into the wild by Rachel Bernstein, 10 March 2015 After finding out that his early successes wouldn't land him the tenure - track position he desired, Ethan Perlstein felt like he was «in the wilderness» for about a year before he reinvented himself, first as an independent scientist and then as a biotech startup founder.

She is looking forward to starting her new position as a research scientist at a biotech startup in April.

Another biotech startup, called Z53 Therapeutics, in Cleveland, Ohio, is taking aim not at the cleft in mutated p53, but at mutations that knock out a key site for binding zinc ions in p53's core.