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12 Biotech Startup Founders You Should FollowHere are some founders of amazing biotech companies who also tweet frequently. I follow them for a unique window into company creation and to learn what they read and think about.
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This is the first in a series of threads on Learning Biotech, highlighting resources for aspiring biotech founders across the startup ecosystem.
Founder #1
Emily Leproust [ @EmilyLeproust]
Founder and CEO of @TwistBioscience, a company that synthesizes DNA oligos at scale and for a range of applications. Follow for news and views on synthetic biology and genetics.
Emily Leproust [ @EmilyLeproust]
Founder and CEO of @TwistBioscience, a company that synthesizes DNA oligos at scale and for a range of applications. Follow for news and views on synthetic biology and genetics.
Founder #2
Reshma Shetty [ @reshmapshetty]
Co-founder of Ginkgo Bioworks [ @Ginkgo], a company with a dazzling portfolio of synthetic biology industrial applications.
Reshma Shetty [ @reshmapshetty]
Co-founder of Ginkgo Bioworks [ @Ginkgo], a company with a dazzling portfolio of synthetic biology industrial applications.
Founder #3
Sri Kosuri [ @srikosuri]
Co-founder of @OctantBio, a company leveraging machine learning, high-throughput assays, and synthetic biology to accelerate rational drug design.
Sri Kosuri [ @srikosuri]
Co-founder of @OctantBio, a company leveraging machine learning, high-throughput assays, and synthetic biology to accelerate rational drug design.
Founder #4
Ethan Perlstein [ @eperlste]
Founder of Perlara, a public benefit corporation. He was also the CSO of @ReeveFoundation, and he remains a strong advocate for centering patients in the drug discovery process.
Ethan Perlstein [ @eperlste]
Founder of Perlara, a public benefit corporation. He was also the CSO of @ReeveFoundation, and he remains a strong advocate for centering patients in the drug discovery process.
Founder #5
Daphne Zohar [ @daphnezohar]
Founder of PureTech [ @puretechh], a company with its own a drug discovery pipeline centered on the brain-immune-gut axis and a portfolio of affiliate companies that it (co-)founded.
Daphne Zohar [ @daphnezohar]
Founder of PureTech [ @puretechh], a company with its own a drug discovery pipeline centered on the brain-immune-gut axis and a portfolio of affiliate companies that it (co-)founded.
Founders #6, 7
Neel Madhukar [ @neelmadhukar] and Cory Gilvary [ @Coryandar]
Co-founders of OneThree Biotech [ @OneThreeBiotech], using machine learning to accelerate drug development. Check out their review paper with @elementolab in @CellPressNews. https://www.cell.com/trends/pharmacological-sciences/fulltext/S0165-6147(19)30131-2
Neel Madhukar [ @neelmadhukar] and Cory Gilvary [ @Coryandar]
Co-founders of OneThree Biotech [ @OneThreeBiotech], using machine learning to accelerate drug development. Check out their review paper with @elementolab in @CellPressNews. https://www.cell.com/trends/pharmacological-sciences/fulltext/S0165-6147(19)30131-2
Founder #8
Yaniv Erlich [ @erlichya]
A serial biotech entrepreneur and current CEO of @eleventx, a stealth company with a new approach to drug discovery. His previous work has a focus on genetics and genomics privacy.
Yaniv Erlich [ @erlichya]
A serial biotech entrepreneur and current CEO of @eleventx, a stealth company with a new approach to drug discovery. His previous work has a focus on genetics and genomics privacy.
Founder #9
Kaja Wasik [ @kajawasik]
Co-founder of @variantbio, a company with a unique mission to find the next therapeutic advance in the genetic variation of the world. She also co-founded @gencove, a genomics sequencing company.
Kaja Wasik [ @kajawasik]
Co-founder of @variantbio, a company with a unique mission to find the next therapeutic advance in the genetic variation of the world. She also co-founded @gencove, a genomics sequencing company.
Founder #10
Alec Nielsen [ @alectricity]
Co-founder of @AsimovBio, a company enabling control of synthetic gene circuits toward drug discovery and manufacturing.
Alec Nielsen [ @alectricity]
Co-founder of @AsimovBio, a company enabling control of synthetic gene circuits toward drug discovery and manufacturing.
Founder #11
Ellen Jorgensen [ @FeyScientist]
Co-founder of Aanika Biosciences and Genspace. Aanika is a company enabling precise supply chain tracking with microbial barcoding; Genspace is a community biolab in Brooklyn, making biotechnology accessible to everyone.
Ellen Jorgensen [ @FeyScientist]
Co-founder of Aanika Biosciences and Genspace. Aanika is a company enabling precise supply chain tracking with microbial barcoding; Genspace is a community biolab in Brooklyn, making biotechnology accessible to everyone.
Founder #12
Surge Biswas [ @SurgeBiswas]
Co-founder of Nabla Bio, a stealth company that is building an ML-enabled protein engineering platform.
Surge Biswas [ @SurgeBiswas]
Co-founder of Nabla Bio, a stealth company that is building an ML-enabled protein engineering platform.
Who are biotech startup founders you follow? Please share!
P.S.
Here's what this is all about:
Learning Biotech
https://twitter.com/MichaelRetchin/status/1348689883817250817
Here's what this is all about:
Learning Biotech
https://twitter.com/MichaelRetchin/status/1348689883817250817
