Austin Draycott

RNA researcher, kayaker and tinkerer | PhD from @GilbertLabRNA @Yale

[Austin Draycott @a_draycott]

@andrewpannu sleuth

[Austin Draycott @a_draycott]

Very true. It's amazing to me how helpful NIH/NCI have been (and they must be protected from the current administration)

[Jason Kelly @jrkelly]

More grad students/post-docs should start deep tech companies by applying for grants.

1. you are good at writing grants -- a motivated undergrad is not good so you have an advantage vs people running on pure startup hustle.
2. it's non-correlated to what VCs are into at the moment so in case your niche of deep tech isn't in vogue (almost always the case!!) you can still get started building.
3. it's non-dilutive - you'll own more of your company
4. you are used to living on not much money (grad school!) so can get a lot done w/ it.

First $3-5M into @ginkgo when we started out of grad school before we did @ycombinator came from grants. you just make a C-corp, get a bench somewhere, and you can apply! Founders of Ginkgo were co-PI on a DARPA grant with David Baker like a year out of grad school. Even if we'd ended up going into academia it would have been better than doing a post-doc over the first couple of year of ginkgo. Do it!

Congrats @cheyava_falls and @deleon_omics!

[Dr. Shelby @shelbynewsad]

New York is the center of the universe 💅

[Adam Feuerstein ✡️ @adamfeuerstein]

Diabetes Association in uproar after members expelled from annual meeting over protest of NIH cuts https://t.co/ftoTWf2Dlv via @cooney_liz

[Yale MB&B @YaleMBB]

Join us Friday, May 3rd at 2PM in Hope H-103 (or via zoom) for Cole Lewis' thesis defense titled "Maximizing Therapeutic Protein Yield Through 5' UTR Optimization"

[Yale Ventures @Yale_Ventures]

REVALIA BIO “HUMAN ORGAN RESEARCH” AWARD: 2023 @Yale Life Science Pitchfest

Wendy V. Gilbert (@WendyGScientist), PhD, Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Project: Developing therapeutic tRNAs to revolutionize cancer therapy

[Austin Draycott @a_draycott]

Enormous congrats to my remarkable cofounder, @Cole_JT_Lewis for earning a spot on the @ForbesUnder30 Healthcare list! Working with Cole to translate our science into therapeutics has been a wild ride so far, and I'm looking forward to building @cloverleafbio's future together!

[Cole Lewis @Cole_JT_Lewis]

1/ Super grateful to be named to the @ForbesUnder30 Healthcare class of 2024! I'm thrilled to be listed alongside such incredible young innovators, scientists, and entrepreneurs.
https://t.co/k4FhdrH46O

[Austin Draycott @a_draycott]

woohoo!

[Cloverleaf Bio @cloverleafbio]

You can meet with us and the other participating startups on 10.11 during a Networking Mixer
with MassBio's innovation ecosystem. Register here: https://t.co/PGSs3DEULS
the-massbiodrive-f23-cohort/ (3/3)

[Cloverleaf Bio @cloverleafbio]

You can meet with us and the other participating startups on 10.11 during a Networking Mixer
with MassBio's innovation ecosystem. Register here: https://t.co/PGSs3DEULS
the-massbiodrive-f23-cohort/ (3/3)

[Austin Draycott @a_draycott]

Woohoo!

[Yale MB&B @YaleMBB]

On Friday, March 10th in Hope 216, Austin Draycott, Gilbert Lab, will be defending. The title of his defense is “Canonical and Non-canonical Functions of Dihydrouridine Synthases in Health and Disease.” Refreshments served at 1:45 pm and defense will start at 2:00 pm.

[Jessica Tucker @JessTucker202]

Happy Valentine’s Day!

[Mary Elizabeth @meharpist]

One of my favorite @nature covers for this week’s issue

[Cold Spring Harbor Asia @CSHANews]

One #CSHAsia meeting at two venues 🇯🇵🇨🇳 having three groups of participants using four ways of interactions to share the latest discoveries in #RNA research in five days.

#RNAsplicing #sncRNA #lncRNA #mRNA #rRNA #rRNA #miRNA #CircRNAs #RNAstructure #RNP #RNAtherapeutics

[Austin Draycott @a_draycott]

@YaleMBB @NeugebauerKarla @LeoSchaerf

[Kay M Tye PhD @kaymtye]

Here’s a hot take that might lose me some friends 🤷🏻‍♀️ but it seems obv:

Grad students are the lifeblood of academia. We must raise their stipends above the poverty line so they can focus on research instead of survival.

When the union strikes, we (PIs) should strike with them.

[Austin Draycott @a_draycott]

@sethbannon Yyup! Happy to chat about benefits of express license vs negotiation etc

[Vega Shah @dr_alphalyrae]

Curious about compensation in biotech and pharma? This massive spreadsheet of crowdsourced data from r/biotech is a fantastic resource capturing types of roles, types of orgs and experience levels across various geographic locations -https://t.co/Y7FeIkaHQW

[Austin Draycott @a_draycott]

All the eIF bind ’n seqs!