#11 - Jake Lombardo, Co-Founder & CEO at Anodyne Nanotech
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Thanks everybody for joining us on episode #11 of Slice of Life Sciences.
I’m very much looking forward to today’s episode as I am joined by Jake Lombardo, Co-Founder and CEO at Anodyne Nanotech, which is a venture-backed, preclinical-stage biotech company developing differentiated, transdermal forms of high-value drugs.
In this episode you'll learn about:
- Lombardo's background
- Where he grew up, and how he gained interest in biotech
- His mentors that inspired him early on
- His time at Union College, and his research projects there
- His time at Tufts University’s Gordon Institute to receive a Master of Science in Innovation and Management
- The founding of Anodyne Nanotech
- the genesis of the company
- The problem the Anodyne team is solving and what applications on the world their science/technology can have
- The Hero Patch
- Pharmaceutical partners that Anodyne is working with
- The seed round received last April
- What this means for the growth of Anodyne, and what the investment been put towards
- The challenges Lombardo has faced with Anodyne Nanotech, and what continues to excite him
- How he's juggled hiring, fundraising, and managing a team?
- and about being an entrepreneur:
- Was there a specific moment Lombardo knew he wanted to be an entrepreneur, or did it happen organically? And
- any advice he’d give to another ‘Jake Lombardo’ getting his master’s about to start a company?
Jake, thanks so much for taking the time to chat with us...can’t wait to continue hearing about your
teams’ successes and growth!
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