Last week, Isayah’s post about Andrew, Jerome, Michael, and Julien’s work was great. We have a blog from Sarah, which is so impactful that we will release it as a seperate post this upcoming Tuesday.
As we enter March and the weather starts getting warmer, there’s going to be a lot going on. Philly Tech Week in May, but there’s plenty of other things before then. Watch the space.
Housekeeping:
Thank you all for coming out to the happy hour in March! It was a great time meeting new popele and seeing what people are up to. Let’s keep up the momentum in April.
Mark your Calendars, AI X BIo 2026 will be on Thursday May 7th as part of Philly Tech week. More information to come soon.
If you know of any startup in the Philadelphia/Greater Delaware Valley region that’s in the intersection of Tech (AI, Data Science, Simulation, hardware, etc.), and Biology in any/all sense (medicine, plants, veterinary, molecular, etc.), or even on the Chemistry side, tell them to DM me.
Events:
The Science of Success brunch is happening next week in Princeton: https://luma.com/0tf8oeio
If you go 30 minutes (give or take) up north to New Brunswick Builds Bio is having their inagural New Jersey Inaugural Symposium for Life Science Innovation and Development https://buildsbio.org/jersey2026/#register
Back in Philadelphia Diversitech Conference (Tribaja) is from March 19–21, 2026 https://diversitech.tribaja.co/
Thinking of getting into hardware you can check out the Hardware night Wednesday March 18th : https://luma.com/8b657z7q
Jobs:
Novocure has a Data Architect position open: Data Architect Job Details | novocure
Trinity Life Science has a Director: Commerical Data Management position: Careers (myworkdayjobs.com)
Genentech has a newly listed Principal Data Scientist and Statistician Principal Statistician & Data Scientist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America | Data Science & AI / ML at Genentech
• Direct exposure to one of the largest curated biomedical knowledge graphs in the industry
• Opportunity to work across QIAGEN Knowledge graphs, OmicSoft datasets, and emerging AI driven workflows
• Strong cross functional visibility across product, sales, engineering, and scientific leadership
• Real customer impact, not just internal modeling
Final thoughts:
Remember, join the Slack: https://bitsinbio.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-24hodpzfq-dvc_6RVgZsRuqCGI46ng~g#/shared-invite/email and search for the Location-Philly channel. I often post the letter via email, there, and on LinkedIn.
You heard of OpenClaw, now there’s ClawBio: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/manuelcorpas_github-clawbioclawbio-clawbio-the-activity-7433399216036544512-vchv?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAMz38cBzaCuszc-MA-PtXGKJQPzNvquV18
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