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Biofounders

by Sofia Sanchez

Fun conversations with the founders, biohackers, CEOs and VCs you have not met yet. www.biopunk.life

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53:54

Grace Chuang - Partner & Creative Director at Oscillator

Biofounders ·

2025/11/06

Biofounders: Fun conversations with unconventional founders, biohackers, CEOs, and investors you haven’t met yet | Follow along on LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram | Support the podcast with a 5-star rating on Spotify ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐In this Biofounders episode:* [0:00 - 1:53] Introduction by Sofia* [2:29] Grace introduces herself* [8:14] Turning a design hobby into a job in biotech branding* [11:21] How branding in biotech has changed in the last decade* [16:08] Common fears around branding and

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49:08

Alexander Titus - NSCEB Commissioner

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2025/10/17

As part of his work in the public sector, Alexander Titus is one of the Commissioners at the United States National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology. He previously worked at the DoD as the Head of Biotechnology Strategy, and helped launch PPPs BioMADE and armi.With too many interests to count, Titus was also part of early-stage startups like Colossal Biosciences; he worked at Google’s healthcare and life sciences division, and cofounded Dauntless Ventures and Decycle Bio.We’ve followed

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27:15

>FASTA_31

Biofounders ·

2025/10/12

>FASTA: weekly short reads of the global biotech ecosystem | Papers and patents, acquisitions and bankruptcies, biotech philosophy | Read in under 5 min | Follow on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram | Versión en EspañolPilgrim is proud to sponsor >FASTA! They’re building the next generation of military medicine for rapid wound healing and pathogen detection—advancing solutions from frontline emergencies to everyday healthcare.1. 🧬 Embryo optimization arrives in Mexico2. 🍫 Cacao embryos3. 🤖

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33:17

>FASTA_27

Biofounders ·

2025/08/29

>FASTA: weekly short reads of the global biotech ecosystem | Papers and patents, acquisitions and bankruptcies, biotech philosophy | Read in under 5 min | Follow on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram! | Versión en Español1. Astra Zeneca's at-home flue vaccine2. Holmes' return3. Influencer marketing for MRI scans4. Novo x Replicate to target obesity with RNA5. Believer meats update6. Debut raises $20M for AI-designed beauty products7. Glowing succulents8. How China will win in BCIs9. Brain

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19:22

Inside a Plant Engineering Lab

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2025/08/27

In the year 2000, Michael Elowitz and Stanislas Leibler published the first paper on a genetic circuit built in E. coli. A couple of years later, the first mammalian synthetic circuits emerged with work from Fussenegger in human cell lines.Genetic engineers remained blind to plants until the late 2010s, when similar genetic engineering efforts started in the autotrophs. Long time scales, heterogeneous cell types, and high polyploidy are only some of the technical challenges of plant

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38:56

>FASTA_26: "To believe in science"

Biofounders ·

2025/08/23

>FASTA: weekly short reads of the global biotech ecosystem | Papers and patents, acquisitions and bankruptcies, biotech philosophy | Read in under 5 min | Follow on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram! | Versión en EspañolPilgrim is proud to sponsor >FASTA! We’re developing the next generation of military medicine to meet the operational demands of modern warfare—moving beyond theory and bringing biotechnology from the benchtop to the battlefield.1/10: Tour of the Brophy lab2/10: GPT coming to your

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45:11

Michael Florea - Cofounder & CEO of Olden Labs

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2025/08/13

Michael Florea is the co-founder and CEO of Olden Labs, an SF-based company developing and shipping AI smart and low cost cages for animal studies. Michael has had a long term vision to advance human longevity since he was a teenager. After his PhD in biology at Harvard Medical School, where he worked on whole body gene delivery systems, he choose to accelerate biotechnology by building Olden Labs. In just one month after launching, they’ve got over 100 labs, companies, and institutions to sign up

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16:05

>FASTA_24

Biofounders ·

2025/08/08

>FASTA: weekly short reads of the global biotech ecosystem | Papers and patents, acquisitions and bankruptcies, biotech philosophy | Read in under 5 min | Follow on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram! | Versión en EspañolPilgrim is proud to sponsor >FASTA! We’re developing the next generation of military medicine to meet the operational demands of modern warfare—moving beyond theory and bringing biotechnology from the benchtop to the battlefield.1/10: Our sponsor cut open his leg and raised

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34:05

Arye Lipman - Cofounder & COO @ Biosphere

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2025/07/30

Arye Lipman cofounded Biosphere, a startup building UV-sterilized bioreactors that replace the 1950’s steam reactors to reduce biomanufacturing costs. Previously, he built a network of biotech labs for startups like Minicircle and invested in some of them. Biosphere came out of stealth this year through a USD $8.8 M seed round led by Lowercarbon Capital and VXI Capital, with participation from Founders Fund.Biofounders: fun conversations with unconventional founders, biohackers, CEOs, and investors

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22:53

>FASTA_22: Eggs!

Biofounders ·

2025/07/23

>FASTA: weekly short reads of the global biotech ecosystem | Papers and patents, acquisitions and bankruptcies, biotech philosophy | Read in under 5 min | Follow on LinkedIn, X, and now Instagram too! | Versión en EspañolPilgrim is proud to sponsor >FASTA! We’re developing the next generation of military medicine to meet the operational demands of modern warfare—moving beyond theory and bringing biotechnology from the benchtop to the battlefield.1/10: ViaGen clones polo mares 🐎2/10: Threesome IVF

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37:43

Onye Ahanotu - Founder of Ikenga Wines

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2025/07/18

Onye Ahanotu—scientist, artist, scholar, home chef, material architect, and founder of Ikenga Wines, a company reimagining palm wine, a drink with thousands of years of cultural depth in the global south. He previously worked at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and remains an active board member of the Counter Culture Lab in Oakland.In today’s episode, we talk about:* How his former interdisciplinary experiences shaped Ikenga wines* How palm wine is actually made and

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44:28

Nick Desnoyer - The Plant Engineer

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2025/03/03

By day, Nick is a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Ueli Grossniklaus at the University of Zürich. By night, he is a flower engineer and artist on a mission to communicate the beauty of plant science to the public through educational projects… you may recognize him as the guy who genetically engineered Arabidopsis flowers and leaves to have different colors and shapes.In this episode:* Where do you draw the line between art and science?* Can we build flower design LLMs?* Could we engineer

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30:27

Gigi Minsky - Cofounder and CEO @ Senseory Plants

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2025/02/24

Senseory is a startup creating plants that bring natural, effervescent aromas indoors. This is an interview with Gigi Minsky, the co-founder and CEO. We talk about her previous experience at companies like Ginkgo Bioworks, her business plan for Senseory, working with a plant biohacker, and the product's most important technical specs (what they can say for now). Enjoy my intro on why I think companies Senseory are the future of consumer biotechnology.Thanks to Elliot Roth for kindly providing the

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35:33

Scents about Jane

Biofounders ·

2025/02/14

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.sofias.bio

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63:21

Guillermo Herrera-Arcos - PhD student @ MIT Media Lab

Biofounders ·

2024/08/09

Checa el trabajo más reciente de Memo en esta nota.Suscríbete gratis a Biofounders y Biopunk para conectarte al primer mundo de la biotecnología mediante newsletters, videos y podcasts.Sigue a Sofía en Twitter o LinkedIn para platicar sobre startups, biotecnología, o filosofía. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.sofias.bio

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35:19

Darko Mandich - Cofounder & CEO @MeliBio

Biofounders ·

2024/04/23

Episode highlights in 5-min video* MeliBio started as a precision fermentation company yet pivoted towards a plant-based product to avoid remaining as a “garage science project” for too long, without fulfilling their mission.* Darko experienced first-hand the hurdles of building not one but two manufacturing facilities in his previous jobs. He’s now outsourcing that for MeliBio and focusing on building a great team that improves the science and the brand for their customers.* Coming from a place of

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15:22

Biology for the rest of us

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2024/04/01

It’s 5:00AM in Toluca when Sofia Sanchez wakes up to the sound of her Westclox, ready for another day as a business major. She drives to her hometown’s business school, listening to the radio, wondering what her professor’s reaction will be to the 76-page final report she wrote with the help of her beloved IBM Selectric, her worn-out Chartpak stencil, her family’s encyclopedia, and Mexico City’s IBM center for some calculations. She makes a stop at a phone call station to remind her teammate to

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43:21

Majo Durán - iGEM Costa Rica, Compound Foods y...

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2023/10/23

Majo es actual investigadora en UCSF. Es iGEMer de corazón, ayudó a empezar Compound Foods (alternativa sustentable para el café), y estudió en el TEC de Costa Rica. Me da mucho gusto que podamos compartir contigo sus fascinantes e inspiradoras experiencias!Mis links:* Twitter* LinkedIn* Substack (blog) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.sofias.bio

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40:39

Matias Peire - Cofounder & CEO @GRIDX

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2023/08/19

Entrevista completa en YouTubeMi serie de artículos con GRIDX This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.sofias.bio

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51:25

Evan Groover - Plant synthetic biologist @ UC Berkeley

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2023/08/19

Evan is a super fun and kind plant synthetic biologist from Berkeley whose work focuses on improving CO2 capture. Even beyond that, Evan is mindful and proactive about making SB safe and accessible to everyone through efforts like spreading this knowledge to people in Kenya!In this family friendly (jargon-free) conversation, we touch on relevant books, the craziest things he’s seen plants do, how he juggles between being a saxophonist and a plant synthetic biologist, how it’s like inside the IGI,

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