Inside Biotech Lab Automation - Luis Villa of Bay Area Lab Automators
Luis Villa co-founded Bay Area Lab Automators, and is a Senior Automation engineer at cell therapy manufacturing startup Cellares.
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Episode Links:
Bay Area Lab Automators / 14250010
Luis' LinkedIn / luis-villa-automation
Luis' Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/lvilla.bsky....
SF Hardware Meetup https://lu.ma/sf-hardware-meetup
Cellares https://www.cellares.com/
Carnegie Mellon MS in Automated Science https://msas.cbd.cmu.edu/
PyLabRobot https://github.com/PyLabRobot/pylabrobot
Drug Development Process (Draft): https://bit.ly/drugdevprocess
Chapters:
00:00 - Preview & Introduction
04:28 - Choosing Lab Automation Engineering as a Career
08:19 - Day in the Life of an Automation Engineer
13:41 - Where Automation Engineers Sit Within An Org
15:28 - Culture of Lab Automation Community
20:16 - Pro Tips for Networking
22:46 - How to Advance the Biotech Industry
24:20 - Segmenting the Lab Automation Market
28:28 - Estimating the Size of the Lab Automation Market
30:49 - Building A Business in Lab Automation
34:17 - Closed vs. Open Systems
39:55 - Accelerating the Drug Discovery Process
44:55 - Challenges of Manufacturing Cell Therapies
51:26 - Rise of Autonomous/Closed-Loop Labs for Science
56:53 - Onshoring for National Security
1:03:23 - Evaluating Startup Pitches in Lab Automation
1:09:20 - Resources for Lab Automation
1:10:34 - Getting Involved with Lab Automators
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