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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Previous episodes:
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Welcome to the From Lab to Launch podcast by Qualio. Discover inspiring stories from those on the front lines of life sciences. You’ll hear founders share their insights from launching and scaling their business, investors giving their outlook on funding, industry experts unfolding their latest insights and research, and quality professionals offering advice to navigate the regulatory maze and avoid audit pitfalls.

Episodes are about 30 minutes and published each week on all major podcast players. 

Tune in and leave inspired to bring your life saving products to the world.

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Music credit:

• Keldez

Qualio website:
https://www.qualio.com/

Previous episodes:
https://www.qualio.com/from-lab-to-launch-podcast

Apply to be on the show:
https://forms.gle/uUH2YtCFxJHrVGeL8

Music by keldez