Favorite Parts of Working in the Biotech Industry as an Analyst
Logan's favorite aspect of the biotech industry is the "cool technology" with potential for a "greener future," driven by "brilliant people" and "crazy ideas." The main challenges involve scaling production to achieve economic viability and market competitiveness against established petrochemical alternatives.
Technology, Green Technology, Biotechnology, Problem-Solving, Economic Viability
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Logan Roberts
Analyst
Hawkwood Biotech Partners, LLC
UC Santa Barbara
University of Washington MS ChemE and Data Science
Biology & Related Sciences
Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical
Data and Analytics
Honors Student, Greek Life Member
Video Highlights
1. The industry offers many opportunities to work with cutting-edge technology and contribute to a greener future.
2. There's a constant stream of innovative ideas and scientific advancements in the biotech field.
3. The biggest challenges involve scaling production to meet economic demands, creating viable markets, and competing with existing chemical products.
Transcript
Q7: Favorite parts - industry
What do you enjoy most about being in your industry?
I think it's all the cool technology. It gives a lot of hope for a greener future, but there's also a lot of really interesting stuff.
The neatest thing I've learned about biotech in particular is that there's no shortage of cool, crazy ideas that can, in theory, work. We're definitely not lagging in scientific ability.
It's more about being able to scale it to make a sufficient volume per year to where it's economically viable. And then also, there being markets for it. It also needs to be competitive with petrochemical-derived chemicals or molecules.
So there are a lot of challenges, but there's so much cool technology. There are brilliant people everywhere, which is really neat.