Lab to Startup
Hundreds of thousands of researchers around the world are working to improve life and address imminent threats to humanity. Often, the research ends up in the “Scientific valley of death” in the form of publications and patents that never see the light of the day.
Welcome to “Lab to Startup” a podcast aimed at showcasing the effort needed to translate lab research to startups. The show has two main goals: 1. Sharing the stories of those scientists and engineers who have successfully founded startups based on the research at university and national labs. 2. Highlighting the resources and tools needed to help those aspiring to launch startups in the deeptech space.
We also want this show to be a way to communicate those technology development stories to the general public (taxpayers funding the research) in the hope that they will continue to support such research and startups.
Recent Episodes
Caribou Biosciences- Developing CRISPR based genome-edited, off-the-shelf immune cell therapies for the treatment of cancer.
July 26, 2022
My guest today is Rachel Haurwitz, co-founder, President and CEO of Caribou Biosciences. Caribou is a CRISPR genome editing company spun out of Jennifer Doudna’s lab at the University of California, Berkeley. In this episod…
Nodexus- Benchtop single cell sorting and dispensing
July 12, 2022
Karthik Balakrishnan (CEO) and Anand Kesavaraju (Chief Strategy Officer) are the co-founders of Nodexus, a Biotechnology startup that is developing scientific tools to accelerate biological workflows and make them universall…
Raydiant Oximetry- Preventing unnecessary C-Sections and making childbirth safer
June 28, 2022
Dr. Neil Ray is the Founder and CEO of Raydiant Oximetry, a medical device company that has developed a safe and non-invasive technology that directly monitors babies’ oxygenation during childbirth. This prevents unnecessary…
Ignite Immunotherapy- Success story of novel “build to buy” business model with Pfizer
June 14, 2022
Dr. David Kirn MD, is the founder, CEO and Chairman of Ignite Immunotherapeutics, which was recently acquired by Pfizer. David is a Physician-scientist and a serial biotech entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in th…
UbiQD- Leveraging quantum dots to improve crop yield & harvesting sunlight to generate electricity
May 31, 2022
My guest today is Hunter McDaniel, the founder and CEO of UbiQD, a startup exploiting quantum dots to improve agricultural yield in greenhouses and generating electricity by embedding them into windows. In this episode of La…
Calwave Energy- Unlocking the power of ocean by harvesting energy from waves
April 12, 2022
In this episode of lab to startup, we talk to Marcus Lehmann, the Co-founder and CEO of Calwave Energy. Calwave is unlocking the power of the ocean by harvesting the dense energy packed in waves, which is about 30-60 times m…
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