Innovator’s Ignite kicks-off! “Our goal…women can be innovators. We can secure patents, start companies, sit in the C-suite.” Dr. Morag Grassie, one of the founders of amplifyHERscience #YaleVentures. #WomensDay2023 #EmbraceEquity

Great morning with our faculty innovation showcase #womeninscience #amplifyherscience Yale Ventures

Afternoon (virtual) keynote! Favorite question “Which will have a bigger impact, CRISPR or chatGPT?” The response: “Why don’t you ask chatGPT?” 😅 wonderful interview of Jennifer Doudna by Apoorva Mandavilli #amplifyherscience Yale Ventures

Congratulations Barbara Ehrlich, founder of Osmol Therapeutics, winner of the 2023 amplifyHERscience award! Yale Ventures #womeninscience

Sharing brand new intranasal data from RIGImmune is CEO Susan Sobolov. RIGImmune was founded by Yale faculty Prof. Akiko Iwasaki and Anna Pyle. Amazing journey so far, and they are currently raising a $25M Series A! #AmplifyHERScience Yale Ventures

Hearing about the interesting science of pangomers that forms the foundation of Pangolin Therapeutics from Susan Froshauser #amplifyHERscience Yale Ventures

Wrapping up our day is Mona Jhaveri describing how she is using music to help biotechs tackling cancer out of the valley of death. Check out her crowdfunding platform Music Beats Cancer! #amplifyherscience Yale Ventures

#YaleInnovation23 kicking off with a full house. Hanging out with Anita (Novartis) and Venture Diva and Rachel (SVB) in the overflow courtyard for the welcome remarks

“Data tells a story but community tells us the truth,” Darcey Cobbs-Lomax Director of Health Equity Yale New Haven Health sharing the importance of being in the home and on the frontlines of home health to better understand what is causing health inequities #healthequity #YaleInnovation23

Diversity in Research panel moderated by Yale Ventures Morag Grassie highlighting the ways Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Future Founders, Equalize, Princeton University Empower, and Yale Ventures amplifyHERscience are intentionally bringing more diverse academic founders into entrepreneurship #YaleInnovation23

Running into my mentor Sylvia McBrinn as we look for overflow space for the keynote panel #YaleInnovation23

Ending the day with a live performance! Innovation in arts track being led by Midnight Oil Collective #YaleInnovation23

“State of the biotech venture market” panel - funding at the early stage is still there if you have in vivo POC data. Establish relationships early by seeking out the funds who are open to hear a concept, even if they don’t fund at that stage. #YaleInnovation23

Wrapping up the first pitch block in Emerging Biotechs is PanV out of Prof. Akiko Iwasaki lab #YaleInnovation23

Biotechs pitching for $30K Blavatnik Accelerator Awards! Exciting end to the biotech programming today #YaleInnovation23

PanV, Inc. from Prof. Akiko Iwasaki lab at Yale pitching for the Alexandria Innovation Prize today! Yale Ventures