Re: [sudo-discuss] Biotech 2.0: Rise of the Biohackers

Do you know of any tangible achievement of the biohacker community so far? Yes, I know of a couple, after Biocurious was founded, John (the scientist who originally built the garage lab that eventually became the basis for Biocurious) went on to found Immunepath, raising capital from Peter Thiel and founders fund. The science at Immunepath was interesting but they had follow on financing challenges (not unusual in the biotech space), he's also gone on to found Gene and Cell technologies to lower the cost of doing biotech (which was one of the big issues he had with his first startup). Several of the Early Immunepath employees went on to continue the entrepreneurial path, including Kelsey who founded Ichor Therapeutics, currently working on developing stem cell therapeutics Glowing Plants was also founded at Biocurious which was successful in raising approximately $500k and appears to be leading the consumer biotech boom. Counter Culture Labs was co-founded by several former and current Biocurious members and founders. Bio, Tech and Beyond (down in Carlsbad) was founded by Joe, who despite complaining a lot (we love you Joe) has been successful in creating a large biotech incubator in Carlsbad. Ron (my co-founder at Berkeley Biolabs), helped train up several people in the lab to eventually get jobs in the biotech industry as researchers (a lifelong dream for many). Ron, Cameron, Kyle, Jay and I (all former BioC) co-founded Berkeley Biolabs as the first biohacker accelerator, we've currently built 4 biohacker companies and companies number 5 and 6 are on the way. Journal Club - this was actually a project of Nina's which eventually expanded out from Biocurious to include most of the US biohacker spaces and for those that have attended became an invaluable place to discuss new papers and new scientific research ideas. Biocoder - Nina and Mike developed the concept and with support of the community launched this quarterly newsletter which is being read globally (beyond just the DIYBio mailing list) Science isn't easy but that significant achievement is coming, we just don't know when and from whom! R > Apart from starting lab spaces. And BioCurious went bust, as far as I > know. Why is that? >> I just published my first Linkedin Article on the biohacker movement and >> I'd love your thoughts! >>> Feel free to let me know if I missed anything (which I most likely did)! >> But it's my initial attempt of letting Big Pharma and Big Biotech know >> we're coming! >>> R >>>> https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140523224352-2371689-biotech-… >>>>> -- >> Ryan Bethencourt >>> Tel: (415) 825 2705 >> Conf Call: (650) 741 5013 >> ryan.bet...(a)gmail.com >>> http://www.litmususa.com/ >> http://berkeleybiolabs.com/ >>> www.bamh1.com >> www.linkedin.com/in/bethencourt >> www.logos-press.com/books/biotechnology_business_development.php >> >