Welcome to the Bits in Bio January 2026 Newsletter, wrap-up edition. I know it’s a day later, but I didn’t want to slam your inboxes within 24 hours of each other.
JP Morgan Healthcare Conference is going on this week. To be honest, it should be in Philly or in Atlantic City, but I’m biased. A lot of details will be coming through, but just remember, it’s only week 1 of the 52 weeks: JPM 2026: Adam Feuerstein's advice for biotech's big week | STAT (statnews.com) In the meantime there are a lot of things that can go on between that and the end of the year and we should do a lot to make those events happen.
Meanwhile, I came up with a hot, strong, and probably correct take: Cosmetics is more biotech and even techbio than longevity. You can email me or debate me through email or wherever.
Housekeeping:
Thank you for coming to our Happy Hour this past Friday. It was great coming back together for the first time this year! We’ll aim to do it again in February.
Sorry, Sarah! We forgot to get you in the photo before we took it.
Show and Tell: We announced it! It’s February 21st, starting at 9 AM! More to come, but we got a whole host of goodies that are coming along: https://luma.com/jzwdvqdr
If you missed it: We have two co-Captains in Omnia and Sarah. Say hello to them and thank you: Welcome back to the Bits in Bio Philadelphia Newsletter (beehiiv.com)
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. We got something planned for Philadelphia Tech week.
Events:
Code and Cofee has their Pitch competiton this Friday: 🏆Philly Founder Pitch Competition🏆, Fri, Jan 16, 2026, 3:00 PM | Meetup
January 15th uCity is starting up their Monthly Innovation Exchange: Monthly Innovation Exchange · Luma
Data Philly is also having an event on the 15th looking at Statistical Riggor within data science: Webinar: Bridging the Gap: Statistical Rigor and the Promise of Data Science , Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup
Not within our remit, but can be since they're doing automation, There’s a Manufacturing and Automation meetup on January 20th, January meetup 1/20, Tue, Jan 20, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup
On January 21st, there’s a Life Science Incubator crawl: Post | Feed | LinkedIn
1Philadelphia at the CIC is hosting their Winter Meetup: https://luma.com/1PHLMeetupJan22
Causes:
Rose, one of our members, is reaching out on behalf of LaunchCode. They’re looking for data analysts or Data Engineers to help out with an in class Demo day https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rose-franzen_launchcode-demo-day-volunteer-sign-up-activity-7415471990834208768-TcC_?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAMz38cBzaCuszc-MA-PtXGKJQPzNvquV18
Climb for a Cause: Supporting Cancer Research is happening anuary 21st where Brad Watts will raise funds for cancer by climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro http://secure.qgiv.com/for/climbforacausesupportingcancerresearch/event/ascentsinbiotech
Jobs:
One of the national organization members created an AI bot for Bits in Bio Jobs: https://bitsinbio.varia-ai.com/?lp=jobs
Speaking of Bits in Bio: The national organization is also looking for a part-time Slack moderator (it pays). You can check it out at the Slack.
The City of Philadelphia is hiring for a major job as the Chief Epidemiologist | City of Philadelphia | LinkedIn
Medical Guardian has a Machine Learning Engineer position: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4359907147
GSK has a Senior Product Director, Biological Data and Insights role https://jobs.gsk.com/jobs/431214?lang=en-us&source=LinkedIn
Legend has a Lab Manager job: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4344980770
If you’re willing to take contract work there’s a remote Clinical Project Manager role Post | Feed | LinkedIn
Natera has a ton of remote jobs avaialble check it out, courtesy of Tosin Oyeniran Jobs at Natera (greenhouse.io)
Mittal Consulting has a Regulatory Affairs entry level job: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4330420100
Final thoughts:
A lot is/has happened over the past two weeks. WE’re not even halfway through the month! Take a breath and keep going. Also, make sure to have taste and discernment for what you do becuase that makes things fun.
AJ