Writing Article on Symbiosis Between Community Labs and Bio-Startups

[Noga Aharony]

Hi everyone,

I'm an intern in Synbio & Policy at Johns Hopkins and I'm writing an article about community labs' role in catalyzing biotech startups. My goal for this article is to show an additional social value to community labs that's often left off, and emphasize that trying to limit DIY biology out of fear could have unseen reprecussions. I was wondering if any of you have stories about biotech companies that started as projects or chance meetups in community labs, or if you know anyone with similar stories?

Please message me to let me know!

Cheers,

Noga.

[Jonathan Cline]

Do you mean the part where biotech 'incubator' or exec guys go into community labs and plagiarize/steal the work, for use as grants or VC funding (both of which sometimes succeed)?   Creepy "Ex-Biotech CEO" hanging around the community labs "listening" to all the community work going on?  Like that?

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[Ravasz]

Hi,

Our alga bioreactor project may be something that suits you: it started out as my hobby project in the local community lab, other folks got interested, we teamed up, got funding, and now we build the bioreactor as a startup. Currently I operate as a sole trader but next year we are on track to form a company. We're very early stage and as such startups tend to go bust rather quickly but let me know if you'd like more details on this.

Cheers,

Mate