Elizabeth Iorns

13 statements across 3 episodes · 8 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Feb 23, 2015 by Elizabeth Iorns · said 3 times in 2 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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Feb 23, 2015 bullish
Opinion
Iorns: Biotech is one of the most exciting venture spaces right now
“I think one of the most exciting spaces at the moment is biotech and is the opportunity for young entrepreneurs who actually made those discoveries to actually be funded and be able to take those discoveries forward”
Elizabeth Iorns Feb 23, 2015 ▶ 5:34 YC Panel at Female Founders Conference 2015 · Y Combinator
Sep 13, 2017 negative
Assertion Supported
Iorns: Postdocs face a severe shortage of academic faculty jobs
“And there's this pretty well-known phenomenon called the postdocalypse that Ethan Pilstein came up with, which is this concept that there's so many postdocs now and no jobs for them. So there's just nowhere for them to go in terms of staying as An assistant pr…”
Elizabeth Iorns Sep 13, 2017 ▶ 12:11 Elizabeth Iorns on Biotech Companies in YC · Y Combinator
Sep 13, 2017 positive
Assertion Supported
Iorns: All marketed drugs require commercial industry to reach patients
“Because the reality is, you know, all innovations that come to market are through industry. So, you know, you don't see drugs on the market that came from academia. They were all, many of them discovered in the earliest phases, the basic research was done in a…”
Elizabeth Iorns Sep 13, 2017 ▶ 13:21 Elizabeth Iorns on Biotech Companies in YC · Y Combinator
Sep 13, 2017 positive
Opinion
Iorns: AI predicting preclinical efficacy and toxicity is highly promising
“For me, the applied area, that's probably one of the more interesting areas, is looking at things like the application of artificial intelligence in the biological sector, so there's some pretty interesting work that's occurring around how to be better at pred…”
Elizabeth Iorns Sep 13, 2017 ▶ 26:36 Elizabeth Iorns on Biotech Companies in YC · Y Combinator
Sep 13, 2017 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Iorns: Clinical trials are shifting toward testing efficacy endpoints in Phase 1
“Historically people would do, you know, phase one, which is basically just like a dose escalation study where you're just looking for toxicity. And then you would do a much larger study afterwards where you're looking for efficacy, and so that's really time co…”
Elizabeth Iorns Sep 13, 2017 ▶ 27:24 Elizabeth Iorns on Biotech Companies in YC · Y Combinator
Oct 3, 2018 negative
Insight
Iorns: Biotech founders often delay the killer experiment out of fear
“One mistake I have seen people make is just, and it's, I think all startup founders kind of do this, is like, not doing the killer experiment, like, not actually just cutting to the chase and saying, okay, these are just the minimal things I need to do to trul…”
Elizabeth Iorns Oct 3, 2018 ▶ 36:22 A Conversation with Elizabeth Iorns - Advice for Biotech Founders · Y Combinator
Oct 3, 2018 negative
Opinion
Iorns: Scientific founders should not prioritize finding a business co-founder
“No, I don't think that should be a goal. I think I actually do have a business co-founder, so you would probably be mad that I say that, but, and he's great, and I literally couldn't have built Science Exchange without him, but not because of his business back…”
Elizabeth Iorns Oct 3, 2018 ▶ 37:34 A Conversation with Elizabeth Iorns - Advice for Biotech Founders · Y Combinator
Oct 3, 2018 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Cheung: Y Combinator has backed hundreds of biotech companies by 2018
“She's also a part-time partner at YC, which means in her free time, she helps all our biotech companies at which, at this point it's like hundreds, I don't know what the exact number is, but hundreds of biotech companies.”
Adora Cheung Oct 3, 2018 ▶ 0:54 A Conversation with Elizabeth Iorns - Advice for Biotech Founders · Y Combinator
Oct 3, 2018 positive
Insight
Iorns: Research market information inefficiency creates high-margin marketplace opportunities
“So that was something that was a big a big learning point for me at that time point was you could actually create a company that had margin in that space because the market was so inefficient due to the lack of information.”
Elizabeth Iorns Oct 3, 2018 ▶ 4:42 A Conversation with Elizabeth Iorns - Advice for Biotech Founders · Y Combinator
Oct 3, 2018 positive
Insight
Iorns: Science startups should wait for grant-funded R&D before joining accelerators
“Actually I do think a good time to join is once you've already generated a lot of the R&D from grant-funded work, because you don't want to spend years and all of this money trying to You know, pursue a research hypothesis. You really want to be in the develop…”
Elizabeth Iorns Oct 3, 2018 ▶ 7:57 A Conversation with Elizabeth Iorns - Advice for Biotech Founders · Y Combinator
Oct 3, 2018 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Iorns: Future biotech will rely heavily on direct consumer payments
“I believe that the future will definitely involve a strong component of user pays, so I think the products that are developed will have to be in indications that the patients are actually willing to pay for”
Elizabeth Iorns Oct 3, 2018 ▶ 39:56 A Conversation with Elizabeth Iorns - Advice for Biotech Founders · Y Combinator
Oct 3, 2018 negative
Assertion Supported
Iorns: Replication studies show most published scientific results are not reproducible
“So the reality is that the results that have been generated show that most published results are not reproducible.”
Elizabeth Iorns Oct 3, 2018 ▶ 22:32 A Conversation with Elizabeth Iorns - Advice for Biotech Founders · Y Combinator
Oct 3, 2018
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Iorns: Scientific experiments often have 10x price differences for equivalent results
“So for example I was seeing literally 10 times price differences for an equivalent experiment because people really just didn't have access to what should it actually cost. And we see that still on Science Exchange today is that when people go and look for mul…”
Elizabeth Iorns Oct 3, 2018 ▶ 4:55 A Conversation with Elizabeth Iorns - Advice for Biotech Founders · Y Combinator
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