I attended three industry conferences (Bio-IT World, Rev4, and BIO) over the last four weeks. This post shares my big-picture takeaway from each conference, as well as a bit about how they stitch together. I think that I may be the only person who attended…
This post summarizes gender representation in the founding, leadership, board, and scientific advisory teams of 162 biotech companies – observed between October and December of 2019. Out of 162 companies listed on the “portfolio” pages of the big three Boston biotech venture firms (Third Rock…
We’re back around to one of my favorite events of the Boston biotech year, The Bio-IT World Expo. This conference has been host to a bunch of critical conversations for me. My favorite example happened in 2004. That was the year that the founders of…
Over the past year, I’ve had the privilege to serve as the chair of a working group (computing) for the GP-Write project. I’m spending today at GP-Write’s annual meeting in Boston. GP-Write is a highly international, rapidly evolving collaboration with a goal of rapidly advancing…
I promised that I would post a summary from our closing panel at the Converged IT and the Cloud thread at the Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference. Unfortunately, I was having so much fun in the session itself that I didn’t take any notes at all. Please…
I’m in San Francisco this week, attending the Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference. I’m specifically focused on a new track called Converged IT and the Cloud. I’m paying particular attention and taking notes – both because it’s very interesting and exciting, because also because at the end…
I had the opportunity to speak at the lab informatics summit on the topic of cloud technologies. It was a lot of fun, I caught up with old friends, and made a few new ones. Also, I got to explore Philadelphia. I came away really…
I had the opportunity to write a white paper for Elastifile about the challenges and opportunities as we shift large quantities of genomic data from traditional on-premise NAS systems to the cloud. If that’s the sort of thing that interests you, check it out here:…
I had the opportunity to write a guest blog post for Elastifile. It’s about the fact that a lot of the data in the life sciences is housed on big NFS fileservers. It has been challenging to shift our workflows, which rely both on the…
The nice folks at Bio-IT World and Bioteam have edited the end-of-conference symposium that I moderated into a video. You can watch us play “catch” with the throwable microphone!