Scientist to Founder

“You can observe a lot by watching”

- Yogi Berra

"Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction."

- E. O. Wilson

"I see a future in which nature gives us a helping hand. Instead of destroying the natural world, why can't we use it to solve the kinds of problems that we are facing?"

- Frances Arnold

"And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice."

- Steve Jobs

TopOMetry systematically learns and evaluates the latent dimensions of single-cell atlases led by Davi Sidarta-Oliveira & Licio Velloso www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Century Therapeutics develops iPSC-derived cell therapies for cancer. Working to design drugs that can better evade identification by the host immune system and potentially allow patients to receive multiple doses of cell therapy. With the idea to get more durable responses.

Enlaza Therapeutics develops covalent biologics. Founded in 2022, the company is developing a new class of protein therapeutics that are engineered to irreversibly lock to disease-related targets. Going after harder-to-drug targets and potentially creating safer/more efficacious treatments

Scientist Stories: Akiko Iwasaki, Immunology and Antibodies youtu.be/1gFzmoCr3Vk

Modular cytokine receptor-targeting chimeras for targeted degradation of cell surface and extracellular proteins www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nautilus Biotechnology is proteomics company developing technologies to measure proteoforms. Founded in 2016, Nautilus' platform is designed to detect proteins that are present in very low concentrations. Measuring specific versions of proteins and also detecting them from complex samples.

Founder Stories: Tassos Gianakakos, CEO of MyoKardia youtu.be/Haa6ORz__ig

Geometric deep learning of RNA structure www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...