01In short
Nucleate helps students and scientists start biotech companies. As VP of its Dojo Explore program, I'm co-developing the curriculum for college students taking their first steps toward starting a company.
02What I did
- Co-developing a biotech entrepreneurship curriculum for college students.
- Designed workshops on ideation, customer discovery, intellectual property, fundraising, and commercialization.
- Helped make biotech startup education more accessible through direct mentorship connections.
03Why biotech founders need this
Biotech is one of the hardest fields to start a company in. Products take years and a lot of money to develop, depend on intellectual property, and have to get past regulators before they ever reach a customer.
Most science students learn the research but not the business around it. Dojo Explore gives them an early map of that process, and connects them directly with mentors who can help them take the first steps.
04The workshops
The workshops follow the path a new biotech company takes. They start with ideation (finding a problem worth solving) and customer discovery (checking that someone actually needs the solution before you build it).
Then come intellectual property, which covers how to protect a scientific idea, and finally fundraising and commercialization: paying for development and getting a product to market.
Each workshop aims to make one stage concrete enough that a student could take the next step on their own.