Grad School, Entrepreneurship, and VC with Dr. Vijay Pande (a16z)

Back in June, the Stanford Biotech Group hosted Dr. Vijay Pande, General Partner at a16z and founder of the a16z Bio Fund for a fireside chat. Highlights from the discussion include:

  • Innovating at the intersection biology and technology

  • Forming investment theses in the a16z bio fund and their evolution since inception

  • The evolving role of data in biotech companies

  • Lessons from entrepreneurship, venture capital, and graduate school


You can access the whole recording below

About the author
Sevahn Vorperian
Sevahn is a graduate student in the Quake lab and a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemical Engineering. She is enthusiastic about all things sequencing and leveraging various measurement techniques to gain quantitative insights into human health and disease. Sevahn is supported by an NSF Graduate Fellowship, a Benchmark Stanford Graduate Fellowship, and ChEM-H CBI. She graduated in 2018 with her Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University, completing internships at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Illumina.

 
 
Sevahn Vorperian

Board Member, Stanford Biotech Group

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