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

[Biotech Ryan]

Do you know of any tangible achievement of the biohacker community so far? 
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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? 
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>> I just published my first Linkedin Article on the biohacker movement and 
>> I'd love your thoughts! 
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>> 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!
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>> R
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>> https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140523224352-2371689-biotech-2-0-rise-of-the-biohackers
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>> Ryan Bethencourt
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>> www.logos-press.com/books/biotechnology_business_development.php
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