HeyJaredThe Research Adventure Podcast
If you’re involved in commercialising university research this podcast will provide you with wisdom, inspiration and practical advice to help you more effectively navigate your commercialisation journey.
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#35 Suzanne Eldridge: How to align a research group and a spinout around a single mission (opens the original)
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In this episode, we meet Suzanne Eldridge, co-founder of ReFleks, a Queen Mary University of London spinout developing a single-injection therapy for osteoarthritis, a disease affecting more than 600 million people worldwide. In this episode, Sue shares: How aligning academic activity with a translational goal keeps her research group and the company pulling in the same direction. Why a publication only advances science, while a patent is what lets you advance a cure. How losing two years to a g
#34 Fozia Saleem: What academic founders should look for when hiring their first CEO (opens the original)
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In this episode, we meet Fozia Saleem, CEO of Magnitude Biosciences, a Durham University spinout that uses nematode worms to help pharmaceutical companies test drugs earlier, cheaper and faster during the drug discovery process. Fozia joined the team as CEO to lay the foundation for scalable growth. In this episode she shares her experience, including the 5-month process to determine if there was a good fit, how she approached the challenge of developing a more commercial culture, and how she ba
#33 Dan Stewart: How a PhD-Supervisor partnership is powering a spinout success story (opens the original)
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In this episode, we meet Dr Dan Stewart, co-founder and CEO of ViridiCO2, a Southampton University spinout that turns waste carbon dioxide into the high-value chemicals found in the products we use every day. In this episode, Dan shares: How the discovery of lab "goop" became the moment their research crossed from academic to commercial. Why the most technically brilliant person in the room isn't automatically the right person to be CEO. How keeping his supervisor and academic co-founder on as c
#32 Zach & Rachel: Discussing their top ten takeaways & insights from Season 4 (opens the original)
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In this end-of-season episode, Zach and Rachel reflect on the biggest insights from Season 4. They explore what it really takes to succeed as an academic entrepreneur, including making a conscious decision about the role they play in their own venture, to learning that the "how" of commercialisation only comes from doing, not from reading about it. The conversation explores the importance of funding as a strategic decision not just a cash injection, why founders should be wary of advice without
#30 Vanissa Wanick: How an Arts & Humanities spinout has become a powerful vehicle for driving knowledge exchange (opens the original)
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In this episode, we meet Vanissa Wanick, senior lecturer in Interaction Design and co-founder of Nucleolus, a spin-out games studio from the University of Southampton. Nucleolus was founded by a group of like-minded academics and together they design and build meaningful, player-centred experiences, from games that solve health-care challenges to increasing citizen engagement. Vanissa’s path is different from most academics. She started as a designer in Rio de Janeiro, worked in industry, comple
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