{"id":13744,"date":"2021-05-19T01:16:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T01:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/graduatestudies\/?post_type=ajde_events&#038;p=13744"},"modified":"2021-05-19T01:16:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T01:16:17","slug":"reimagining-career-possibilities-biotech-start-ups","status":"publish","type":"ajde_events","link":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/graduatestudies\/events\/reimagining-career-possibilities-biotech-start-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Reimagining Career Possibilities: Biotech Start-ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>A well-known saying, &#8216;I would take the road less travelled&#8217; suits well to our speaker Assistant Professor Dr Minh Le, who has established her career from a biomedical PhD to a co-found<\/span><span>\u200ber of\u00a0Carmine Therapeutics, a start-up company based on red blood cell EVs in Singapore and Boston. She will share \u200bthe\u00a0key decisions made and deep dives into the critical &#8216;breaks&#8217; and &#8216;mistakes&#8217; made and lessons drawn in her career\u00a0leading to the birth of Carmine therapeutics. It is a great opportunity for everyone who is keen to find out how it is like to start a biotech startup, and how to transition into it!\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><span>Please register by clicking on the following link:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_7nzVZyChQzWTe4P78aF78Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_7nzVZyChQzWTe4P78aF78Q<\/a><\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><span>About the Speaker:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span>\u00a0<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dr. Le graduated from the National University of Singapore in 2005 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in Life Sciences. She further received a Ph.D. degree in Computational and Systems Biology from the Singapore-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Alliance under the guidance of Prof. Bing Lim at the Genome Institute of Singapore and Prof. Harvey Lodish at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. From 2010 to 2015, she took a postdoctoral training under Prof. Judy Lieberman at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in the USA. From 2015 to 2019, she worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedical Sciences at City University of Hong Kong (CityU). She became\u00a0a tenure-tracked Assistant Professor at Department of Pharmacology, National University of Singapore, in 2019.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dr. Le is well recognized for her contributions to the field of microRNAs (miRNAs), extracellular vesicles (EVs) and cancer biology. She was the first to identify a miRNA that regulates p53, an important tumor suppressor gene. This miRNA, miR-125b, was subsequently found to be a potent oncogenic miRNA in leukemia and many solid tumors. Dr. Le characterized the anti-apoptotic functions of miR-125b in zebrafish embryos and mammalian cells. She demonstrated that this tiny RNA is dispensable for normal development as it regulates the delicate balance between cell death and growth by repressing the p53 gene network. Furthermore, during her postdoctoral training, Dr. Le illustrated a novel mechanism of cancer crosstalk in which miRNAs secreted by metastatic breast cancer cells are delivered to non-metastatic cells via extracellular vesicles (EVs) and promote colonization of tumor cells in the lung. Recently, our group has established a new EV-based drug delivery platform with efficient and safe delivery of RNA drugs to cancer cells. With these original findings, Dr. Le\u2019s articles have been cited over 1400 times by researchers worldwide (<\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=MzzztMAAAAAJ&amp;view_op=list_works&amp;gmla=AJsN-F4gNWyhVJ4WD5EZw2OrASKDXVbZ5ibteFfboOhjOEGtVnBnFT94eW5WlycsWkqwvAoVFXtriwTi5PDw2dMUyApvh-6r4t2g08XuuQvtl1nXKWyOCww&amp;undo=untrash_citations,LkGwnXOMwfcC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">link<\/a><\/span><span>).\u00a0Dr. Le is also a scientific co-founder and advisor of Carmine Therapeutics, a start-up company based on red blood cell EVs, based in Singapore and Boston. Carmine Therapeutics has raised 9.5M USD seed funding and recruited about 20 employees.\u00a0For more information about Dr. Le, you may visit\u00a0<\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/lelabnus.wordpress.com\/dr-le\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\">https:\/\/lelabnus.wordpress.com\/dr-le\/<\/a><\/span><span>. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8685,"featured_media":13745,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"tags":[],"event_type":[],"event_type_2":[],"class_list":["post-13744","ajde_events","type-ajde_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_organizer-nusmed-postdoctoral-association"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Reimagining Career Possibilities: Biotech Start-ups - NUS Medicine Graduate Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/graduatestudies\/events\/reimagining-career-possibilities-biotech-start-ups\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Reimagining Career Possibilities: Biotech Start-ups - NUS Medicine Graduate Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A well-known saying, &#8216;I would take the road less travelled&#8217; 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