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30th Sep 2026

Published in PharmaTimes magazine -
The business of science is being failed by scientists

Wherever two or more MedTech start-up founders gather, the conversation follows the same depressingly familiar pattern.

In the breakout areas and coffee bars of conferences and symposia around the world, these identical stories unfold among our brightest scientific minds.

Postdocs and PhDs recount how they have spent half a decade mastering a niche process in surface chemistry, lateral flow diagnostics or immuno-oncology and then, at the moment of their greatest intellectual triumph, they are handed a ball and chain along with a business card that says ‘CEO’.

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