First Rounders

Nature Biotechnology
  • 4.5 (8)
  • NATURAL SCIENCES

Nature Biotechnology's First Rounders podcast is a series of conversations with founders, financers and developers from biotech's past, present and future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 04/05/2022

    Good Bye

    Brady Huggett signs off. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    4 min
  2. Jay Keasling

    01/04/2022

    Jay Keasling

    Jay Keasling is a professor in the College of Chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley, where he runs the Keasling lab. He’s also the CEO of the Joint BioEnergy Institute, and has been involved in several startups. His conversation with Nature Biotechnology covers growing up on the family farm in Nebraska, how Genentech led him into biotech, and the future of biofuels. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1hr 12min
  3. Ingmar Hoerr

    01/02/2022

    Ingmar Hoerr

    Ingmar Hoerr is a co-founder and former CEO of CureVac. His conversation with Nature Biotechnology covers his initial discovery with RNA while in his PhD program, the struggle to find venture financing for CureVac, and how a brain aneurysm changed his view on life.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1hr 3min
  4. Lita Nelsen

    01/12/2021

    Lita Nelsen

    Lita Nelsen is the former long-time director of the Technology Licensing Office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her talk with Nature Biotechnology covers her father’s life designing television antennas, what drove her to the chemical engineering program at MIT, and the ingredients required to create an entrepreneurial environment on campus (and beyond). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    52 min
  5. Hope Lies in Dreams Chapter 1

    08/09/2021 ·  BONUS

    Hope Lies in Dreams Chapter 1

    Stan Crooke is born ⬩ A tenuous existence ⬩ Life with his mother ⬩ The Tech Corner ⬩ Arsenal Tech High School ⬩ Nancy ⬩ Hoodlum ways ⬩ Off to Purdue Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    34 min
  6. Anthony Atala

    01/09/2021

    Anthony Atala

    Anthony Atala is the director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University. He is also a co-founder of Precise Bio. His conversation with Nature Biotechnology covers implanting the first tissue-engineered bladder into a patient, Wake Forest’s plans for fostering entrepreneurship, and how he was coerced into a research career by a mentor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1hr 6min
  7. Nancy Simonian

    01/07/2021

    Nancy Simonian

    Nancy Simonian is president and CEO of Syros Pharmaceuticals. Her conversation with Nature Biotechnology covers going against the advice of her mentor to take a job at Biogen; the long, winding path to approval for the multiple myeloma drug Velcade; and assisting her father in the operating room as a girl. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1hr 8min
  8. Carl June

    01/06/2021

    Carl June

    Carl June is a co-founder of Tmunity Therapeutics, and a professor in immunotherapy at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also runs the June Lab. His conversation with Nature Biotechnology includes how a boyhood fractured arm led him to his first scientific experiment, his years of service with the Navy, and his groundbreaking work with CAR T-cells. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1hr 5min
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Nature Biotechnology's First Rounders podcast is a series of conversations with founders, financers and developers from biotech's past, present and future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Information

  • Creator
    Nature Biotechnology
  • Years Active
    2012 - 2022
  • Episodes
    61
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2019 Springer Nature 878632
  • Show Website
    First Rounders