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J. Jean Cui and the art of starting again
A chemistry education took J. Jean Cui from China to Ohio, Berkeley, and San Diego. Two companies later, the BlossomHill co-founder is still finding reasons to begin.
Amira Barkal and the unfinished business of discovery
A Stanford researcher helped a colleague finish a project. Years later, they were building Pheast Therapeutics together. Amira Barkal’s path from the laboratory to company leadership began with the work between the milestones.
Cheri Ackerman and the art of being a beginner
A Michigan lab, a Berkeley fellowship, and a company built with friends. Cheri Ackerman’s path to Concerto Biosciences is a story of learning the job while doing it - and making room for other people to do the same.
Thomas Ybert and the cost of waiting
A biofuel researcher grew tired of waiting for the DNA his experiments needed. He co-founded DNA Script to put a printer on the lab bench, then traded the CEO’s chair for the next scientific question.
Huafen Liu Built the Missing Middle of Clinical Mass Spectrometry
After two decades inside Pfizer, Roche and SCIEX, Huafen Liu left the multinational track to solve an unglamorous problem: making an exacting laboratory craft work the same way, every day. Her answer was not one machine, but a system around the machine.