Speaking at BioEurope on company creation in the opening plenary in Barcelona on March 18. The panelists are J&J Innovation and Sofinnova; I'll have the US perspective. Enough Calif rain!

Big congrats to UCSF Startup 101 alum Kunwoo Lee, Cofounder/CEO GenEdit, for a $629MM deal with Genentech on GenEdit’s platform. Novel nanoparticles to deliver Genentech’s nucleic acid-based medicines for autoimmune disease. A UCSF/UCB bioeng PhD startup to commercial success!

A Global Life Science Entrepreneurship Course alum will tell his startup story on 8.29, 5 pm PDT briefing. eventbrite.com/e/global-life…. Check out the video for another perspective. Sept 6 class registration deadline. innovation.ucsf.edu

Dinner last night with Global Entrepreneurship Course alum Yudara Kulakarathne @Yudarakula007. Caught up on his startup healthhealth.ai, a men's sexual health app. Great traction on B2C, now working on B2B. Put it on your radar.

We're pleased that the entrepreneurship team at University of Basel is joining our Global Life Sciences/Healthcare Entrepreneurship Course: Virtual Master Class Direct from Silicon Valley. Briefing August 9, 9 am PDT.eventbrite.com/e/global-life…

Cohort 5 of our Global Life Sciences/Healthcare Entrepreneurship Course is taking shape. Great sessions planned on the basics of starting a company, taught by Silicon Valley practitioners and entrepreneurs. Join our email list: forms.gle/LvsuvhkBRc3zaS859

Our global life science startup class briefing was attended by people from Singapore, Australia, India, China, Vietnam, a strong Asian group. We'll have a geographically diverse fall cohort. innovation.ucsf.edu/global-e….

We are holding a briefing tonight on our acclaimed online class, Global Life Sciences/Healthcare Entrepreneurship Course: Virtual Master Class Direct from Silicon Valley. Please join us. Register: eventbrite.com/e/global-life…

Great BIO @IAmBiotech @ conference last week in Boston. Spoke on a Bayer panel on Creative Financing Options and judged global startups over 3 days. FDA head @DrCaliff_FDA, UCSF alum, spoke. Glad to be part of this industry.

FDA Commissioner Bob Califf on the stage at #bio. UCSF alum. 20k people at the conference in Boston.

We need to learn more about psilocybin. Fascinating talk about mushrooms at #SynBioBeta2023 by @PaulStamets Application for depression, smoking cessation, addiction.

I’ll be speaking at @SynBioBeta next week in Oakland. I’m looking forward to seeing all of the latest developments in the world of synthetic biology. You can see the full speaker line up at: synbiobeta.com. @johncumbers puts on a great conference.

Great conference on drug discovery, insights from Pharma and FDA leaders #SDDS2023 . Nobel Laureate panel topping it off in 5 minutes, 4 Nobelists in one place at Stanford!

Day 2 of #ycombinator @YCDemoDay Only 10% of batch are life science/healthcare. Lots of AI, GPT, tools for developers. Is there a better model for LS/H?

Endpoints News@endpts market conditions sum: The industry has been in this crunch for over a year now, putting more and more startups in survival mode. Facing shrinking cash reserves, another slate of biotech companies are laying off workers and winding down clinical programs.