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Future Founders Initiative aims to increase female entrepreneurship in biotech


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The Future Founders Initiative aims to increase the fraction of MIT female faculty who found companies from less than 10 percent to 25 percent by 2024.
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Future Founders collaborators (clockwise from top left) Susan Hockfield, MIT president emerita; Harvey Lodish, professor of biology and biomedical engineering; and Sangeeta Bhatia, the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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The gender disparity in biotech really got Sangeeta Bhatia’s attention while she was on sabbatical. Bhatia had taken a year to focus on her startup biotech company, Glympse Bio. The startup, inspired by bioengineering breakthroughs in Bhatia’s lab at MIT, advances biosensing technology and is now well-funded. But in 2018, Bhatia had to do what all startup founders have to do pitch ideas and court ....

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