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

[Ryan Bethencourt]

FULLY agree Craig :)
On May 25, 2014 12:06 AM, <craigrouskey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Immunity Project is conducting HIV vaccine research and kicking ass :-)
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> On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Biotech Ryan <ryan.bethencourt at gmail.com
> > wrote:
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>> 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).
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>> 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).
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>> 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
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>>> 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!
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
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>>>> 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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