Ryan Meyers _ e.042

Ryan Meyers is a skilled biotech executive with significant experience in management consulting, venture capital and company creation. He is the co-founder of both AddGraft Therapeutics – a novel skin based cell therapy platform – as well as Alnair Therapeutics - which aims to develop a platform technology that improves the delivery of drugs to difficult-to-treat cancers. Ryan has his MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, and in his early career he worked a places like Gibson Consulting and AArete Consulting. In this episode, Ryan breaks down different opportunities for startups, important milestones in company creation, describes the unique challenges (as well as ways to overcome them) and the responsibilities of leaders in the life sciences. He brings up his learning process and the interaction of business and science - how a hopeful future has an important focus on accessibility.