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SUMMARY:Networking with IndieBio: The world's largest seed biotech acceler
 ator - Ryan Bethencourt
DTSTART:20170407T170000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Interested in starting a biotech? Want to hear about Indie Bio
 's great successes? This is the event for you!\n\n7th April\, 18:00 - 20:0
 0\nPostdoc Centre\, Mill Lane \n \nEPOC will be hosting Ryan Bethencourt f
 rom IndieBio. Ryan is a Cambridge alumnus\, entrepreneur\, and program dir
 ector and venture partner at Indie Bio.\n \nIndie Bio\, based in Silicon V
 alley\, is the world's first startup accelerator and early stage seed fund
  for synthetic biology. They fund companies that span all life science sec
 tors - including food\, agriculture\, healthcare\, neurotech\, biomaterial
 s\, therapeutics\, and more.Their notable alums include Memphis Meats\, Ko
 niku\, SyntheX\, Ava Labs\, Qidni\, New Wave Foods\, and MycoWorks.\n \nRy
 an was formerly head of life sciences at the XPRIZE foundation a co-founde
 r and CEO of Berkeley Biolabs\, a biotech accelerator and Halpin Neuroscie
 nces\, an ALS therapeutics-focused biotech company. He co-founded Counter 
 Culture Labs\, a citizen science nonprofit\, and Sudo Room\, a  hacker spa
 ce based in downtown Oakland\, California.\n \nHe'll be giving us a summar
 y of what they're doing over in Indie Bio and what it takes to turn and id
 ea to a biotech business in just a couple of months.\n \nAs usual\, this e
 vent will be followed by networking\, so please do come along and enjoy so
 me beer.\n\nTo find out more about IndieBio\, please visit: http://indiebi
 o.co/. \nTo register\, please click here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/mye
 vent?eid=33271506973.\n
LOCATION:OPdA Postdoc Centre\, 16 Mill Lane\, Cambridge\, CB2 1SB
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