Brandon suffered from 2 autoimmune diseases from age 13-18, but he was not able to find any solution to cure his disease, and Michael lost many of his family members due to cancer during his teenage time; the unfortunate experience Brandon and Michael been through has motivated them to learn more in biology, and one-day creating useful solutions in biotech to save lives. In their second year of University, Michael and Brandon came together. They created BioDojo, now Nucleate Dojo, a community and training ground for the next-generation biotech innovators to connect, grow and build in BioTech together.
Branden is a 2x Founder (iAscend, Nucleate Dojo), Analyst (Winning Together Fund) Consultant (Onova, ex-KPMG) and a Laidlaw Scholar (UofT)
Michael is a visiting research student at McGovern Institute, MIT, Cofounder of Nucleate Dojo, and Project lead on REMEDI repository (remedirepo.org)
Here's the topics that we've covered:
What is BioTech?
Cellular agriculture
Unfortunate experiences in their teenage lives that lead them to BioTech
How Michael met Brandon
Starting of BioDojo
Robotics & the power of cross-collaboration
Future of BioTech & How will it change our lives
Advice for Community Builders
#9 Co-founders of Nucleate Dojo｜Brandon Yu & Michael Trinh