The First Rounders podcast with Anu Acharya can be found here. She is founder and CEO of Mapmygenome, and formerly ran Ocimum. She wrote about mentorship here, and here she is talking at an independent TED event. She wrote a piece for our Building a Business section in Nature Biotechnology, the PDF of which is here. And finally, she wrote about the passing of her father here.
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Nancy J. Kelley
Click here for the First Rounders podcast with Nancy Kelley. For more on her consultancy, go here. A Frontline interview with Nancy’s college friend (and Black Panther Party member) Kathleen Cleaver can be read here. A New York Times blog post on the East River Science Park’s first tenant is here. We published an article on the New York Genome Center, and Nancy, here. And here is a BuzzFeed article on the Genome Project-Write (side note: the author of that article, Nidhi Subbaraman, was once a Nature Biotech intern). The Science paper on Genome Project-Write is here.
The First Rounders podcast with David Baltimore is located here. Here is his lab page at Caltech. Find The New York Times article on his winning the Nobel prize at this link. His page on the Nobel site is here. The New Yorker article covering the charges against the Thereza Imanishi-Kari paper, which we discussed on the podcast, is here (subscription required for full article, though someone has scanned in the PDF). A Nature article on the Asilomar conference found at this link. An interview on PBS concerning AIDS research is here.
Our First Rounders podcast with guest Tom Maniatis can be found here. More information on the launch of Tom’s start up Kallyope can be found in this article from STAT, and here’s the link to his lab at Columbia. Our conversation covered the moratorium on recombinant DNA in Cambridge, Massachusetts; more information in this article from Science. There is plenty to read out there about Jim Watson, who was a long-standing mentor to Tom, including this article about Jim selling his Nobel prize (though apparently it was given back?), or a bit of his biography. For those unfamiliar with the horrors of Agent Orange, here’s the Wikipedia entry.
The First Rounders podcast with Daniel Cohen can be found here. Our conversation covers his creation of the first physical map of the human genome; a NY Times article titled “Mining the Genome” mentions this, and more broadly suggests how genomics in 1994 was expected to influence life science business. Daniel and Craig Venter in 2000 wrote a commentary for the LA Times on the future of genomics in human health, which is a fun read some 15 years later. Here’s the press release when Daniel won the Academy of Achievement’s “Golden Plate” award. And this recent article in STAT examines Daniel’s newest company, Pharnext.
The First Rounders podcast on gene therapy pioneer James Wilson can be found here. Our discussion touches on the gene therapy clinical trial that killed volunteer participant Jesse Gelsinger, about which much has been written, though a few of the better articles can be found here (in Wired) and here (in Scientific American). We also discussed recent trial results from Bluebird Therapeutics. Dr. Wilson’s co-authored article in Nature Biotechnology on pricing for gene therapy products can be found at this link.
Our First Rounders podcast with Bill Rutter can be found here. For anyone looking for more information on Bill’s background and research, see his biography on the Synergenix website (here), or this page from the University of California at San Francisco. Also, there is the excellent (and very long) transcribed oral interview with Sally Smith Hughes, from the Regional Oral History Office, University of California, Berkeley.
For those seeking additional content on the founding of the Bill Rutter center, see this article from SFGate, sister website to the San Francisco Chronicle. For more on Bill Rutter’s opposition to moving the Golden State Warriors to the Mission Bay area, visit the Mission Bay Alliance website.