Elizabeth Iorns | Industrial Science for Everyone
Bio: Dr. Elizabeth Iorns is the Co-Founder & CEO of Science Exchange. Elizabeth has a Ph.D. in Cancer Biology from the Institute of Cancer Research (UK) and was an Assistant Professor at University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine where she investigated breast cancer development and progression. Iorns is also the co-director of the Reproducibility Initiative, and is a part-time partner at Y Combinator.
Links: Science Exchange| twitter
Summary: Dr. Elizabeth Iorns and her company, Science Exchange, have sped up the process of discovery by creating a platform that matches scientists to laboratory services and providers. They embolden researchers through contractual standardization and an easy-to-use project management interface — freeing science from unnecessary bureaucracy and giving everyone access to industrial science infrastructure.
Notes from the discussion:
The Reproducibility Initiative at Science Exchange
DARPA - Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE)
Highlights:
The next ten years will see a continued acceleration away from artisanal and towards industrial science. pic.twitter.com/4YlzNOlgsX
— science better (@scibetter) February 12, 2021
Is the scientist-to-entrepreneur path a one-way door? No — it's a permeable boundary.
— science better (@scibetter) February 12, 2021
Iorns explains how entrepreneurial experience gives a wider lens on research possibilities. pic.twitter.com/o9FH8x5S67
Science *has* gotten so much better in the past decade: outsourcing, industrialization, automation. We can do more, though, especially in terms of how we distribute funding. pic.twitter.com/pLGkmMC58a
— science better (@scibetter) February 12, 2021