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

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On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Biotech Ryan <ryan.bethencourt at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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-2-0-rise-of-the-biohackers
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
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>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>>> www.linkedin.com/in/bethencourt
>>> www.logos-press.com/books/biotechnology_business_development.php
>>>  
>>
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