Leveraging investor networks is key to growing a biotech startup. Learn how an NCI SBIR-awarded small business succeeded in doing so: https://sbir.cancer.gov/about/innovation-lab-podcast/launching-and-growing-biotech-startups-part-2

In part two of the series on launching and growing biotech start-ups, NCI SBIR Program Director William Bozza and Director of Investor Relations Brittany Connors get insights from Immunophotonics CEO Lu Alleruzzo and CSO David Anderson on how small businesses can distinguish themselves to investors and lessons learned as scientists turned business owners.

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How to Make an Effective Pitch: https://nci.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/69141973-ccbb-4eed-9a30-dfcd68b850d7

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This episode is part one of the two-part series that explores perspectives on launching and growing biotech start-ups. Program Director William Bozza invites CEO Lu Alleruzzo and CSO David Anderson from Immunophotonics, a clinical-stage biotech company, to share their experiences and advice on how they established businesses, from academic labs to growing biotech startups.

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SBIR Innovation Lab Podcast: https://sbir.cancer.gov/about/innovation-lab-podcast
SBIR Development Center: https://sbir.cancer.gov/

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This NCI SBIR Innovation Lab Podcast episode features the roundtable segment of the NCI SBIR-hosted event Empowering Innovation in Women’s Health with NCI Director W. Kimryn Rathmell as the moderator.

In the hour-long episode, six female business leaders—including five CEOs and one CTO, all of whom have been funded and supported by NCI SBIR/STTR, American Cancer Society (ACS), or both—share key lessons learned and stories about the impact their technologies are having on women's health:

Dawn Mattoon, Ph.D., CEO, Mercy BioAnalytics
Eve McDavid, CEO & Co-founder, Mission Driven Tech
Anu Parvatiyar, Co-founder & CEO, Ananya Health
Maria Luisa Pineda, Ph.D., Co-founder & CEO, Envisagenics
Shadi Saberi, Ph.D., Founder & CTO, iSono Health
Kristin Sherman, M.B.A., CEO, Kovina Therapeutics

This segment ends with an audience Q&A session that focuses on advice for emerging entrepreneurs.

SBIR DEVELOPMENT CENTER
SBIR Innovation Lab Podcast: https://sbir.cancer.gov/about/innovation-lab-podcast
SBIR Development Center: https://sbir.cancer.gov/

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By Phone: 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237)

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