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Ryan O'Connell
Managing Director
Nucleate
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Ryan is a 4th year Ph.D. candidate at University of Pennsylvania engineering bispecific antibodies for cancer immunotherapy, after working as a senior associate scientist in preclinical drug discovery for small-to-mid-size pharmaceutical companies developing small molecule therapeutics. Currently, Ryan acts as managing director of Nucleate for the Philadelphia region whose Activator Program facilitates the formation of life sciences companies by identifying founders creating impactful biotechnologies at local academic institutions. He and his team embark founders and supporting students in business, science, and medicine through a tailored curriculum that dismantles the start-up process into an incremental system of expert-led workshops and educational lectures, while providing executive-level mentorship and network access to entrepreneurial resources and opportunities, both locally and globally.