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Biofounders
by by Sofia Sanchez
Fun conversations with the founders, biohackers, CEOs and VCs you have not met yet. www.biofoundershq.com
Episodes
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Inja Radman - Cofounder and CSO @ New Culture
Biofounders Podcast: Fun conversations with the founders, investors, researchers and artists you haven’t heard of | Follow along on LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram | Support the podcast with a 5-star rating on Spotify ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ In this Biofounders episode, I interview Inja Radman, a…
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Grace Chuang - Partner & Creative Director at Oscillator
Biofounders: Fun conversations with unconventional founders, biohackers, CEOs, and investors you haven’t met yet | Follow along on LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram | Support the podcast with a 5-star rating on Spotify ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ In this Biofounders episode: * [0:00 - 1:53] Introduction by…
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Alexander Titus - NSCEB Commissioner
As part of his work in the public sector, Alexander Titus is one of the Commissioners at the United States National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology. He previously worked at the DoD as the Head of Biotechnology Strategy, and helped launch PPPs BioMADE and armi. With too many…
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Inside a Plant Engineering Lab
In the year 2000, Michael Elowitz and Stanislas Leibler published the first paper on a genetic circuit built in E. coli. A couple of years later, the first mammalian synthetic circuits emerged with work from Fussenegger in human cell lines. Genetic engineers remained blind to plants until the…
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Michael Florea - Cofounder & CEO of Olden Labs
Michael Florea is the co-founder and CEO of Olden Labs, an SF-based company developing and shipping AI smart and low cost cages for animal studies. Michael has had a long term vision to advance human longevity since he was a teenager. After his PhD in biology at Harvard Medical School, where he...
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Arye Lipman - Cofounder & COO @ Biosphere
Arye Lipman cofounded Biosphere, a startup building UV-sterilized bioreactors that replace the 1950’s steam reactors to reduce biomanufacturing costs. Previously, he built a network of biotech labs for startups like Minicircle and invested in some of them. Biosphere came out of stealth this year...
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Onye Ahanotu - Founder of Ikenga Wines
Onye Ahanotu—scientist, artist, scholar, home chef, material architect, and founder of Ikenga Wines, a company reimagining palm wine, a drink with thousands of years of cultural depth in the global south. He previously worked at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and...
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Nick Desnoyer - The Plant Engineer
By day, Nick is a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Ueli Grossniklaus at the University of Zürich. By night, he is a flower engineer and artist on a mission to communicate the beauty of plant science to the public through educational projects… you may recognize him as the guy who…
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Gigi Minsky - Cofounder and CEO @ Senseory Plants
Senseory is a startup creating plants that bring natural, effervescent aromas indoors. This is an interview with Gigi Minsky, the co-founder and CEO. We talk about her previous experience at companies like Ginkgo Bioworks, her business plan for Senseory, working with a plant biohacker, and the...
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Guillermo Herrera-Arcos - PhD student @ MIT Media Lab
Checa el trabajo más reciente de Memo en esta nota. Suscríbete gratis a Biofounders y Biopunk para conectarte al primer mundo de la biotecnología mediante newsletters, videos y podcasts. Sigue a Sofía en Twitter o LinkedIn para platicar sobre startups, biotecnología, o filosofía. This is a public...
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Darko Mandich - Cofounder & CEO @MeliBio
Episode highlights in 5-min video * MeliBio started as a precision fermentation company yet pivoted towards a plant-based product to avoid remaining as a “garage science project” for too long, without fulfilling their mission. * Darko experienced first-hand the hurdles of building not one but two...
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Biology for the rest of us
It’s 5:00AM in Toluca when Sofia Sanchez wakes up to the sound of her Westclox, ready for another day as a business major. She drives to her hometown’s business school, listening to the radio, wondering what her professor’s reaction will be to the 76-page final report she wrote with the help of…
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Majo Durán - iGEM Costa Rica, Compound Foods y habilidades interdisciplinarias en la biotecnología (Español)
Majo es actual investigadora en UCSF. Es iGEMer de corazón, ayudó a empezar Compound Foods (alternativa sustentable para el café), y estudió en el TEC de Costa Rica. Me da mucho gusto que podamos compartir contigo sus fascinantes e inspiradoras experiencias! Mis links: * Twitter * LinkedIn *...
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Matias Peire - Cofounder & CEO @GRIDX
Entrevista completa en YouTube Mi serie de artículos con GRIDX This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.biofoundershq.com/subscribe
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Evan Groover - Plant synthetic biologist @ UC Berkeley
Evan is a super fun and kind plant synthetic biologist from Berkeley whose work focuses on improving CO2 capture. Even beyond that, Evan is mindful and proactive about making SB safe and accessible to everyone through efforts like spreading this knowledge to people in Kenya! In this family…
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Li Lu Lam - CEO & cofounder @ Forma Foods
Li Lu es la CEO de Forma Foods, la primera empresa de carne cultivada en México, que ha reunido a los mejores expertos en ingeniería de tejidos, bioreactores, y ciencia de carne para ofrecer la proteína del futuro a millones de Mexicanos. Con inversión de Saya Bio, comenzaron con un prototipo a...
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Christina Agapakis - Creative director @ Ginkgo
In this episode: * What does it mean to be a creative director at a synthetic biology company? * Christina’s story in science * Why synbio is more mainstream than “we” think * Anecdotes of the GMO sticker * Skills and mindsets for synbio * What needs to change in order to grow an abundant future...
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Mark Belan - Scientific illustrator
Mark (@markbelan) holds a Bachelors in Arts & Science, a Masters in Geochemistry and Astrobiology, as well as a Masters in Biomedical communication. Before becoming a freelance scientific illustrator featured by Nature, he did research in astrobiology which could be useful to find life on other...
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Ignacio Vargas - Product head @ TurtleTree
TurtleTree es una startup de proteínas alternativas para productos lácteos en Singapore. Antes de unirse a ella en una etapa temprana, Nacho estudió y trabajó en el Tec de Monterrey y tuvo experiencia en Nestlé y Grupo Herdez en México. Espero que este episodio sea de especial ayuda para gente...
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Victor Angel-Mosti - Fundador de omica.bio
Omica es un biobanco nacido en México, con la misión de traer medicina de precisión a América Latina. Previo a ello, Victor empezó MariMori, una empresa dedicada al descubrimiento de nuevos biomateriales. En este episodio, hablamos de los retos y oportunidades de los emprendimientos…
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Elliot Hershberg - Genomics PhD @Stanford, research analyst @NotBoring
Worship growth in the biological sense--Elliot Hershberg is best known for his Substack publication "The Century of Biology" where he shares insights on interesting preprints in the genomics field and recently thoughts on biotech through the VC lens too. He is currently studying a genomics PhD at...
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Christopher Reynolds - Founder and CEO @EdenBio
Christopher is the founder and CEO of EdenBio, a startup building a Machine Learning platform to help biotech startups have higher yields in precision fermentation. In this episode: How to face the recession as a biotech startup All about EdenBio Rock-paper-scissors in the biotech startup...
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Irfan Tahir - New Harvest fellow and PhD biomaterials researcher
"Keep all of your fundamentals strong and for sure you'll find a place in cell ag". Irfan is currently a Ph.D. candidate and New Harvest Fellow at the Engineered Biomaterials Research Laboratory at the University of Vermont where he is tissue engineering cultured meat on plant-based scaffolds. In...
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Subaita Rahman - Cofounder @NucleateDojo
"Talk to as many people as you can and don't be afraid to reach out. Naturally they'll become your mentors because they'll see you grow"--Subaita Rahman, cofounder of Nucleate Dojo and the Dojo House (the global community for biotech undergrads and the first-ever co-living house for young...
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Cai Linton - CEO & cofounder @ Multus Media
"You can work on incredibly interesting and difficult challenges, make money, and have a fulfilling career while improving people's lives and the planet's life. So what's stopping you from joining this movement?"--Cai Linton, CEO and cofounder of Multus Media, UK-based startup accelerated by...
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Yadira Tejeda - Cofundadora @CellAgCanada
Yadira es una científica Mexicana que estudió su doctorado en inocuidad alimenticia en Canadá. Hace unos años, se adentró a la industria de agricultura celular y fundó Cell Ag Canada. Ahora es la directora de colaboraciones en New Harvest, una organización de agricultura celular, sin fines de...
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Alan Perlstein - CEO @California Cultured
"Be more conscientious of how our buying choices could make people's lives better and impact the world"—Alan Perlstein, CEO and founder @CaCultured, @indbio SF21. In this OBio episode: Alan as a founder Lessons of a biotech CEO Patenting Ethics of cellAg This is a public episode. If you'd like to...
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Jake Wintermute - Synbio evangelist @Ginkgo
"Stay humble, biodesigners"—Jake Wintermute Jake is a synthetic biology teacher and researcher currently based at the CRI in Paris, France. Outside of studying antibiotics and the human microbiome, his interests range from wood as the perfect biomaterial, to making biotech more accessible. As I’m...
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Zimri T. Hinshaw - The future of biomaterials @BuchaBio
Zimri is the CEO and founder of Bucha Bio, a biotech startup growing biomaterials using bacterial nanocellulose and plant-derived proteins. They were part of Indiebio, have raised over 250k, and are working on expanding their library of biopolymers. In this episode: Zimri’s story as a founder All...
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Amy Li - Decoding Decoding the World
IndieBio is the place where entrepreneurship meets science, founders from diverse backgrounds connect, and solutions to the world’s biggest problems come to life. Arvind Gupta is the founder of Indiebio and Po Branson is the managing director. They both wrote the most creative book I’ve ever…
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Dariia Dantseva - Biohacking @Yanelab
"Take responsibility and do biohacking"—Dariia Dantseva Dariia is a biohacker and founder of the Yanelab—the first and only DIY bio lab in Ukraine. She has been part of the CDC biohacker group, a trio of biohackers who, among other things, created a DIY corona vaccine for themselves (and it...
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Rahul Rana - Author of Making moonshots
"So many things to be solved, so many things to be done, LET'S GO MAKE SOME MOONSHOTS"—Rahul Rana Raul is a GenZ VC, author of "Making Moonshots". During 2020, he worked at Lux capital, a fund investing in highly disruptive science and technology ventures, namely, moonshots. His mission is to...
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Ana Paula Acevedo - Stevia hecha con hongos
"Si queremos llegar a los objetivos de la agenda 2030 y tener algo sustentable, la biotecnología es la respuesta" Ana Paula es cofundadora de RebX, una startup que busca crear el futuro de los endulzantes de Stevia aprovechando residuos agroindustriales. Ella ha sido parte de comunidades como…
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Steven ten Holder - Longevity startup @YC
"We're standing in the shoulders of giants who are making it more likely that within our lifetimes we will be able to live longer"—Steven ten Holder @steventen is the co-founder of Acorn Biolabs, a company that stores your stem cells so you can have a brighter future. Before that, he studied a...
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Race Against the Clock ft. Seth Peachey
"We wanted to move away from startup competitions and instead throw a massive welcome party to the bio-economy for everyone"--Seth @sethpeachey is a former startup founder, bitcoin super-enthusiast, and has a lot of experience in business development, especially in SaaS used for employee...
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This is OBio
"It's time to grow" In this episode: · CEOs of unicorn companies, researchers from around the world, biohackers, and founders · Balance between going technical, understanding, and making biotech truly exciting · Academia and industry · Cell ag, synbio, longevity, gene editing, AI, bioinformatics,...
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Nanotechnology in a nutshell ft. Carlos Sanchez
Carlitos is a 16-year-old nanotech researcher and climate action enthusiast. In this episode: Craziest applications How to get started on nanotech Carlos' projects Get in touch with Carlos Twitter LinkedIn This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get…
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Startups and the unconventional path ft. Sigil Wen
Sigil is the CEO and co-founder of BitSwap, a platform to buy and sell Bitclout for Etherum, raising funds at a 10 million dollar valuation! In this episode: What taking the unconventional path means Learning how to learn The future of Bitclout Startups vs projects Living the "startup life" Get…
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Taking climate action with biotech ft. Adara Hagman
Adara is a creative disruptor on a mission create a more sustainable future through design and circular systems. In this episode: Sustainability in a nutshell The sustainable future of food Why fashion is a big problem (the way it's done today) Microbial fuel cells to create energy and clean…
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Exponential biotechnology ft. Guido Putignano
Guido is the CEO of Yealthy: a startup fostering discoveries to enhance human potential through exponential technology. He is also a futurist, entrepreneur, and Chief Exponential Officer. In this episode: creating bioplastics with people from XPRIZE, quantum biology to cure diseases, using VR and...
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'Til the Heat Death of the Universe
Main takeaways from Ray Kurzweil's book: The Singularity is Near. In this episode - Why the podcast is called 2045 - Predictions for the XXI century - Why most futurists are wrong - The 3 revolutions: genomics, nanotechnology, robotics - How to thrive in the singularity This is a public episode.…
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LightIR: detecting cancer with light ft. Aaryan Harshith
Aaryan is the founder of LightIR, a system to detect cancer during surgery. He is only 15 years old and he is an activator at The Knowledge Society. In this episode: How LightIR works Product development Patents for your inventions Being interested vs being committed to something Follow the…
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Biohacking is not a crime #2 ft. Josiah Zayner
Josiah is a leader in biohacking, CEO and founder of The Odin (https://www.the-odin.com), a company that is democratizing bio engineering. In this episode: Cellular agriculture Mental models to innovate Why ideas are worthless Reverse engineering DNA with Machine Learning The future of biotech...
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Jo Zayner - Biohacking is not a crime
CEO of the-odin.com, mad pirate king of biotech. Josiah Zayner is a leader in the biohacking movement. He has experience in modifying his gut microbiome, genetically modifying himself with CRISPR, creating a coronavirus vaccine, and culturing cells... all DIY and @ home! What you can learn from...
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Blockchain & ML ft. Alishba Imran
From learning about blockchain, to how Machine Learning can be used to exponentially accelerate the testing of batteries, problem solving frameworks, and much more... Learn more about Alishba and reach out to her on her website: https://alishbaimran.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to...
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Drug discovery 101 ft. Seyone Chithrananda
Seyone is an 18-year old working at the intersection of machine learning and biochemistry, with an impressive background (including working for Fortune 500 companies and interning at a lab at the University of Toronto). 2045 is made for curious people who want to learn about the future, so…
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Microfluidics and bio-nanotech #2 ft. Ivonne Lomelí
Check out the first episode to get more context. Feel free to check out Ivonne's YouTube channel as well: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClgPVl_yPDqMqbCv_xC2hfQ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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Microfluidics and bio-nanotech #1 ft. Ivonne Lomelí
Microfluidics, synthetic biology, research, and startups. This is only half of the episode. Stay tuned for more! Reach out Ivonne @IvonneLomeliL on Twitter and Ivonne Lomeli on LinkedIn :) Follow @2045 Podcast on Instagram and Twitter for more! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss...
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Biocomputing #2 ft. Ammielle Wambo & Anna Heck
Check out Pt.1 if you haven't yet! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.biofoundershq.com/subscribe
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Biocomputing #1 ft. Ammielle Wambo & Anna Heck
Anna Heck and Ammielle Wambo share with us everything they know about a mind-blowing technology between the worlds of tech and biology. Is this the end of computing as we know it? Connect with Anna! https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-heck-8310081b8/ Connect with Ammielle!...
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Fun conversations with the founders, biohackers, CEOs and VCs you have not met yet.
www.biofoundershq.com
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