Episodes

Feb. 8, 2022

Bakar Bioenginuity Hub- Accelerating research to realization

Prof. Amy Herr is the Executive Director of the Bakar Bioenginuity Hub (BBH) and Prof. Regis Kelly is the Director of Bakar Labs at the University of California, Berkeley. BBH is a new campus initiative that aims to launch the …

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Jan. 25, 2022

Nelumbo: Keeping the world cool by mitigating frost and corrosion cha…

Liam Berryman (CEO) and Lance Brockway, Ph.D. (CTO) are the co-founders of Nelumbo, a startup developing an advanced materials platform focused on improving the energy performance and minimizing corrosion challenges with heat exchangers in Air...

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Jan. 11, 2022

New Sun Road- A startup building technologies to provide energy (rene…

Jalel Sager, Ph.D. (CEO), Austin Cappon (Networks & hardware), and Jonathan Lee (Senior R&D Engineer) are the co-founders of a California based startup, New Sun Road (NSR). They develop cloud-based technology systems designed to distribute...

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Dec. 21, 2021

Nitrase Therapeutics: Story of a scientist turned entrepreneur whose …

is the founder and CSO of Nitrase Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company deploying its unique NITROME platform to unlock the therapeutic potential of nitrases, a new class of enzymes discovered in-house that offer the promise of a pipeline of...

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Dec. 14, 2021

Scalmibio: An oncology biotech (antibody prodrugs) startup from idea …

Summary: Marija Vrljic, Ph.D., is the co-founder and CEO of Scalmibio, an early-stage biotechnology startup that developed a transformational technology focused on oncology applications. We talk about the inspiration for launching the startup,...

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Nov. 23, 2021

Enabling Awesome through MBC Biolabs, Mission Bio Capital & Mission B…

Douglas Crawford, Ph.D., is the General Manager of MBC Biolabs, Managing Partner of Mission BioCapital, a VC fund investing in life sciences startups at the seed and Series A stages. We talk about the facilities that help scientists at MBC …

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Nov. 16, 2021

Rocket Fund- helping academic innovators in the cleantech and sustain…

Stephanie Yanchinski is the Director of Entrepreneurship of the Resnick Sustainability Institute at the California institute of technology. We cover the details of the Rocket Fund grants, application process, funding criteria, timelines, partners that add

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Nov. 9, 2021

Designing hardware: "Idea to prototype"

Mark Brinkerhoff is the President of Fusion Design, a consultancy that has helped design over 1500 hardware products from concept to creation stages. We cover the concept of design, building the requirement documents (MRD, PRD), prototyping,...

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Nov. 2, 2021

Mission Bio- Startup providing cancer researchers with the only multi…

Mission Bio is a startup that pioneered high throughput single cell sequencing. We talk about how they are helping researchers and clinicians unlock single-cell biology to enable the discovery, development, and delivery of precision medicine; the...

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Oct. 26, 2021

Lessons learnt from designing electronics, firmware, and software wit…

- Most challenging projects are the ones where the customer/client doesn't listen. - Current and future states of wearable industry and future - Remote monitoring of patients is here to stay (thanks to COVID) and wearables are going to play …

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Oct. 19, 2021

4DMT- Gene therapy company that customizes AAV vectors to target spec…

Prof. David Schaffer and Dr. David Kirn are the co-founders of 4D Molecular Therapeutics (4DMT). We cover the founding story, underlying technology development, funding from research grants to IPO, partnerships with pharma and biotech companies, lessons f

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Oct. 12, 2021

Unshackled Ventures- VC firm investing in immigrant entrepreneurs

Manan Mehta is the founding partner of Unshackled ventures. We cover the thesis behind funding immigrant entrepreneurs- more specifically about their process for funding startups and how they help them with their visa issues. - A high conviction...

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Oct. 5, 2021

Building the startup muscle for academic founders.

Martin Casado is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), a pioneer of software-defined networking, and a co-founder of Nicira Networks. We cover the lessons learnt from Martin's journey as an academic entrepreneur founding Nicira and factors...

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Sept. 28, 2021

Illumina accelerator for genomics startups

My guest today is Amanda Cashin, the Co-Founder and Global Head of Illumina Accelerator, which focuses on building genomics-driven startups. We talk about: Accelerator program, sequencing support, seed funding, training and the selection process....

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Sept. 14, 2021

Molecular Foundry: Nanoscience research facility

In this episode of Lab to Startup, I speak with Shannon Ciston and Branden Brough. Branden is the Deputy director of Molecular Foundry at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Shannon is the Director of the User Program. We explore …

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Sept. 14, 2021

Xcell Biosciences - Cell culturing technology to enhance drug screeni…

In this episode of Lab to Startup, I speak with Brian Feth and James Lim, co-founders of Xcell Biosciences. We explore the startup story and learn about: The founding story- the initial hypothesis behind the product they wanted to build …

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Sept. 7, 2021

Welcome to the Lab to Startup Podcast

This podcast is focused on stories from founders in deep tech space building startups from their research at universities and national labs. Also want to cover resources (investors, tech transfer offices, advisors, industry alliance offices, etc.)...

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