Nucleate Bio- A collaborative student-led organization that facilitates the formation of pioneering life sciences companies

Anjali Ramaswami, Tobias Schmid and Miroslov Gasparek, are leaders at Nucleate Bio, a nonprofit educational organization that empowers the next generation of bio-entrepreneurs to launch successful life sciences ventures. Their program connects early-career scientists with business students and provides a structured educational framework with one-on-one mentorship that leverages their world-class network & resources.

In this episode of lab to startup, we talk about the pain points this group is addressing; understand how they match co-founders, their application process; guidelines and challenges for others considering launching a chapter of this organization at their universities; and subjects like diversity, cross pollination between campuses and many others.

Shownotes
- https://nucleate.xyz
- Problems that Nucleate is addressing and back story to build this organization
- Matching co-founders
- Lessons learnt from team formations
- Genesis: Developing a venture thesis based on an idea
- Application process
- Clinical track program
- Speech language program to teach scientists how to talk about their research without revealing any key technology
- Challenges initiating local chapters
- Pairing MBAs with PhDs- what works? Cross pollination between campus
- Addressing diversity
-  Mentorship: From faculty, VCs, operators
- Nucleate 2023 Activator application: https://nucleate.typeform.com/activator2023?typeform-source=nucleate.xyz
- General Inquiry: contact@nucleate.xyz