I'm curious who all these sarcastic bio "experts" are that are suggesting getting a PhD or hiring one. I'm a former bio major and researcher/scientist that transitioned to software engineering years ago. I've published papers in bio and worked with many PhDs. Many of them were idiots. Being a PhD doesn't mean anything, it's the independent work that you put in yourself (in an academic lab or by yourself) that determi…
I think for non scientists looking to work in biotech, it is critical to also understand how the industry works and how value is created. That's the failure point for most biotech startups -- they dont have a useful application of their tech, or the useful application takes costs too much to develop compared to the value it creates A practical way to do this is to invest in biotech stocks. This will expose you to cli…
This is precisely the failure of every academic ever. We can examine this through the Theil-lens where they're trying to create a narrative of uniqueness where their research applies + revolutionizes everything ( when it does not ).
But everyone knows this is not the case. This is the central plague of all academic research, that its the pursuit of novel understanding before useful application.
I would argue that this is more a defining characteristic of the current academic pyramid scheme than biotech startups.
Biotech startups dont go out for VC unless they HAVE a market.
Biotech phds go to the NIH regardless of whether theres a market.