Accelerating Climate Biotech: Bridging Industry and Academia

​​What is holding climate biotech back? How can you improve your scientific impact? Can industry and academia join forces to accelerate progress?

Accelerating Climate Biotech: Bridging Industry and Academia is a UW-hosted Seattle panel and mixer focused on strengthening industry–academia partnerships to accelerate climate biotech. This event brings together founders, researchers, and climate biotech practitioners to surface what’s holding progress back, and to identify where industry and academia can join forces to move climate biotech faster.

The program features short introductions, a rapid-fire panel on key bottlenecks and collaboration lessons, followed by facilitated discussion tables where attendees can rotate between panelists to ask specific questions. We’ll close with a relaxed networking apéro for continued conversation.

​​Panelists:

• ​​​François Baneyx — Vice Provost for Innovation & Director of CoMotion; Co-founder, Proteios

• ​Alexandra Shiluk — Transition Metal Solutions

• ​​Mike Tyka — Google / The Institute of Protein Design, UW

• ​​Ben Jester — Lumen Biosciences

​Capacity is limited, please sign up early and update your RSVP if your plans change.

​​About the Sponsor

​​​Homeworld Collective is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit empowering the climate biotech community to take action. Our mission is to accelerate the growth of climate biotechnology for a healthy biosphere and thriving society. Homeworld’s three focus areas are to 1) foster a robust community across researchers, entrepreneurs and stakeholders, 2) facilitate community discourse to identify actionable problems, and 3) fund early-stage research to derisk new ideas.