The BioHive R.E.P.O.R.T.
BioHive Utah
BioHive is a collective representing the life science & healthcare innovation ecosystem of Utah’s economy.
Welcome back to the BioHive R.E.P.O.R.T., a bi-weekly rundown of what the Utah Life Sciences community is reading, doing, and saying.
Reading List
Ecosystem Events
Bench to Bedside Competition Showcase
On April 8th, join student innovators, healthcare professionals, entrepreneurs, investors, and University of Utah leadership at the Utah State Capitol Building for the 14th annual Bench to Bedside Competition Night!
Date:?April 8th, 2024 // 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Location:?Utah State Capitol Building
Altitude Lab Annual Demo Day 2024
Join Altitude Lab’s Demo Day! The event aims to showcase the achievements of their resident companies, exchange ideas, and build more inclusive and accessible health care.
When: April 18th, 2024
Where: Ken Garff Scholarship Club
Student Event: HUB Talks - AI Advancements Likely to Disrupt Healthcare
Join the University of Utah Biomedical Informatics department on Wednesday, April 3rd, from 6 - 9 pm for HUB Talks - Networking event w/ a Panel Discussion on "AI advancements likely to disrupt healthcare"
Programs in the BioHive
Buzzing in the BioHive - HealthTech Hub Launch, WITS Mentorship Night, and Utah Tech Student Chapter Soft Launch.
It’s been a busy few weeks in the BioHive!
On March 7th, the BioHive Women in Tech and Science chapter hosted an International Women’s Day mentorship event with the Women of Recursion ERG. ?Attendees heard insights from Michaela Hatch on how to find and foster a mentorship relationship. We then had 17 incredible mentors (pictured) spend 2 hours in small mentorship groups with 60 women from the life sciences industry. It was a great example of how even a short conversation with a leader can spur new ideas, growth, and career development.
On March 13th, we launched the HealthTech Hub. The goal of the HealthTech Hub chapter, formerly BioBytes, is to catalyze precision medicine innovation and disrupt the healthcare system, resulting in personalized preventative care, more effective treatments, improved patient outcomes and reduced healthcare disparities.
On March 19th, we soft-launched the Utah Tech University Student Chapter with their Department of Biotechnology.
Thank you to everyone who participated in these community efforts!
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BioHive BYU Student Chapter #BioHiveExplores Day 2024
On the first Friday in March, BioHive's BYU Student Chapter and Brigham Young University students joined us in Salt Lake for a BioHive Explores Industry Tour Day. Students visited BD, Recursion, and Seek Labs for comprehensive tours and learning sessions with employees.
They spent the afternoon hearing from ARUP Laboratories’ Lisa Carricaburu, Checkerspot's Kevin Kinghorn, and Altitude Lab's Kapil K. Sharma about the diverse life sciences industry opportunities available to them after graduation.
Days like this are vital to students preparing to enter the hashtag#biotech workforce, and we are so grateful to everyone who helped make the day possible and to all the amazing companies who opened their doors to these amazing students. #GoCougs
Opportunities
The Utah Association of Colleges and Employers - Alumni Job Fair
UACE are delighted to extend a warm invitation to BioHive employers for the Utah Association of Colleges and Employers' New Grad & Alumni Statewide Career Fair on Thursday, May 16th, from 3 pm to 6 pm at the A. Ray Olpin Student Union on the University of Utah campus.
Join them in this exciting endeavor to shape the future workforce of Utah while expanding your organization's reach and impact.
Should you have any questions or require further information, please contact Leslie Bolton at [email protected] or Denise DeCoite at [email protected].
Research
The BioHive team had a chance to catch up with the folks at Wasatch BioLabs in Heber, Utah and learn about the great work they are doing in the diagnostics field.
Wasatch BioLabs is a research and development and Oxford Nanopore Technologies certified laboratory specializing in high-throughput sequencing and methylation analysis. They pride themselves on being an innovative R&D lab that utilizes cutting-edge technologies, including Nanopore technology, to provide a comprehensive range of sequencing services to researchers and clinicians.
Oxford Nanopore Technologies offers a unique capability in real-time analysis of native DNA and RNA, regardless of their length. Through their collaboration with Nanopore, Wasatch BioLabs can identify various genetic variations such as copy number, structural variations, single nucleotide polymorphisms, and INDEL variants, as well as methylation and hydroxymethylation base modifications in a single sequencing run.
Talk of the Town
Roundtable: Utah’s evolving life sciences industry - Utah Business
Last month, BioHive Executive Director Aimee Edwards joined thought leaders from Utah's life science ecosystem for this dynamic roundtable. Thank you Utah Business for hosting us.
BioHive Board Chair and CEO of Seek Labs Jared Bauer summed it up well: "Our ecosystem today is a well-rounded view of life sciences. Utah has every aspect of what we have traditionally and non-traditionally called life sciences. They are growing and succeeding here."
Read more about what the thought leaders in our industry had to say about the state of life sciences in Utah.
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The BioHive Team
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