Insights from Biotech Pioneer and Investor Ron Shigeta

Ron Shigeta is a serial entrepreneur & startup biotech pioneer. He’s also been a serial founder having run startups in AI drug tox detection & synthetic biology. Ron holds a PhD in Chemistry from Princeton University, where he spent his academic research career focusing on secondary metabolic biosynthesis, diabetes, genomics, genetics, structural biology and systems biology.  

As an entrepreneur, investor, scientist, and mentor Ron shares some great insights to anyone who wants to contribute to life sciences. 

Some takeaways:

• Starting a biotech company today is much easier and cheaper than at any other time
• Advice to founders to gain relevancy and trust from investors and get funding
• Biotech investments now are where software was 2+ decades ago

Links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/startupminute/
• https://www.alix.vc/ron-shigeta
• The Bio Revolution by McKinsey Global Institute 
• See more information about From Lab to Launch by Qualio

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