• Sean Mooney

• Introduction of the ISCB Industry Advisory Council and session overview
• Overview of the academia–industry–startup pipeline
• Framing questions: How do discoveries become products? What does meaningful collaboration look like?

• Ellen McDonagh, Ellen McDonagh, Rosie Rodriguez

Explore the early stages of innovation where research meets entrepreneurship. Speakers will discuss:
• What makes a scientific idea “translatable” in the eyes of investors or biotech accelerators
• How academics can navigate the startup

• Enoch Huang
• Scott Markel

Focus on later-stage collaborations and real-world applications. Panelists will cover:
• How computational biology fuels industry R&D pipelines
• Collaboration models between academia, industry, and public funders
• Career navigation

• Andrew Smith
• Nick Weber

Review some key areas of funding strategy aligning with innovation pipelines such as:
• Navigating government and cross-sector funding channels
• Emerging biotech/AI policy in the UK and globally
• Role of public datasets and infrastructure in enabling industry research
• Strategies to foster equitable, sustainable academic-industry partnerships