From Bioinformatics Scientist to Entrepreneur

Fiona Nielsen28 Maj - 2016

SDU Alumni Dag

Tweet me @glyn_dk

From Bioinformatics

Scientist to

entrepreneur

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Now I am an entrepreneur

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How did I end up here?

• Masters in bioinformatics, Odense, Denmark• Masters project in Nijmegen, CMBI, The Netherlands• Continued as Phd student (junior onderzoeker) with

CMBI and Molecular biology

Then my mother got cancer

The frustrated researcher!

How did this happen?

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Genomes Sequenced

~400k genomes produced

Barrier to data access

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It has taken a while…

DNAdigest was founded in March 2013

Working out what to do

Making data discoverable and shareable

We founded Repositive

To make genomic data accessible for research

Adrian Alexa CTO & Data Scientist

Fiona NielsenFounder & CEO

A portal to search for data

Interested? Sign up for our beta at repositive.io

But we are not done yet

The future is always uncertain

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I am just doing what it takes

Team effort

Presenting to the world

Reaching out

ConsultingFundraisingMarketingBrandingPublic EngagementFinancial forecastsPlanningSoftware developmentScienceLong daysLittle financial returnBig satisfaction

Questions? I would love to hear from you , drop me a line at fiona@dnadigest.org

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Life as an entrepreneur

Read more at http://repositive.io and http://DNAdigest.org

Thanks for listening!

repositive [ re-poz-i-tiv ], noun; 1. a positive experience of accessing

genomic data repositories

Read more at http://repositive.io and tweet us @repositiveio