Welcome to the Natal Better Show Backstory Genealogy

I'm Paul Volkizang, this is episode 2009 and we're celebrating National DNA Day.

As part of our backstory genealogy series, joining us today is Dr. Olivier Noel.

Dr. Olivier Noel is a 2017 Forbes magazine 30 Under 30 Honoree in Science and is founder and CEO of

DNA Simple.

Dr Noel who grew up in Haiti then attended medical school at Penn State,

has been conducting DNA, biomedical, and developmental biology research for eight years.

In celebration of National DNA Day, please join me in welcoming to the Not Old Better Show

via Internet phone, Dr. Olivier Noel. Dr. Olivier Noel, thanks so much for joining us today.

It's a pleasure being here.

Thank you, Paul. Well, the title of your talk at the National Institutes of Health Bench to Bedside to Business is a talk on

startups in science and entrepreneurship in science. What is your point about

startups in science?

Yes, so bench to bedside to business

was really a talk about showing

that there are a lot of opportunities

in the sciences actually to make an impact and actually be entrepreneurs.

I think for a long time, particularly in graduate school and medical school and training in general and sciences, you know, starting companies and being

entrepreneurs.

It's been a little bit a taboo and a talk that people don't really have in assuming everyone's going to go into

the academia and a grant writing and assistant professor pipeline. But what I

think is there are quite a number of opportunity outside of just clinical trials as we know

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