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Tech Optimist: An Alumni Ventures Podcast#60 - Meet the Start-Up Focused on Microbe-TechIn this Meet the Startup episode of the Alumni Ventures Tech Optimist Podcast, host Drew Wandzilak, Senior Associate at Alumni Ventures, introduces Cheri Ackerman, co-founder and CEO of Concerto Biosciences. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Concerto is transforming how we use microbes to develop innovative products for health, agriculture, and beyond. Cheri dives into their groundbreaking technology, kChip, which tests millions of microbial combinations to discover effective microbial ecosystems. She discusses their clinical trials focused on conditions like eczema and yeast infections, emphasizing Concerto’s long-term vision of leveraging microbes to create sustainable, biology-based solutions. The conversation explores how Concerto ai...2024-10-0841 min
Building BiotechsGrow by Experimenting with Cheri Ackerman, Cofounder & CEO of Concerto BiosciencesThis week we chatted with Cheri Ackerman, PhD, Cofounder & CEO of Concerto Biosciences. During her postdoctoral work at MIT, she developed the groundbreaking kChip technology that led to the formation of Concerto Biosciences. We discuss the challenges and opportunities of building a company during the pandemic and the importance of learning the business side of biotech as a scientific founder. As always, we trumpet the value of building a network to leverage during the growth process. Cheri gives really great advice for aspiring entrepreneurs, which is to keep learning and embrace asking questions when you don’t know something. I...2024-07-2335 min
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and MillerTough Tech Today Season 4 Preview: Exploring Oceans, Quantum Realms, and Machine IntelligenceTough Tech Today is transitioning seasons, recapping our Season 3 themes exploring the tough tech domains of biology, space, and fusion energy. We are also preparing for the show's fourth season and we are really excited for it!Upcoming themes:Blue tech – The advanced technologies of the maritime industry. Incredible machines, sustainable oceans, and mysteries to solve in our planet's seas.Quantum sciences – A wild world where physics gets weird, we are super curious about opportunities in computing, sensing, and communication.Artificial Intelligence – While it was only fairly recently that "A.I." has debuted on the pop-culture zeitge...2024-01-0913 min
The Fundable Founder24. Concerto Bio - Cheri AckermanAs an academic entrepreneur, how do you spin out of the university and raise capital to bring your innovation to market? In this episode, Concerto Biosciences CEO and Cofounder Cheri Ackerman tells her story. Ackerman discusses how she and her colleagues transformed their biotech research at MIT into a thriving startup that harnesses the power of microbes to benefit health. Ackerman discusses: How do you take that first step out of academia? How do find the right VCs? How do you create the FOMO that makes VCs want to invest in your startup?2023-07-0719 min
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and MillerOrchestrating microbes, featuring Cheri Ackerman of Concerto BiosciencesIn one sentence... The interactions of the microbial world within us has been incredibly difficult to see – until now.From the depths of our intestines to the surface of our skin, our bodies are host to trillions of microbial cells spanning thousands of species. While critical to helping us to fend off illnesses and digest complex foods, we know very little about the complex interactions among these microbes.The team at Concerto Biosciences, led by CEO and Cofounder Cheri Ackerman, has put in place a key step in advancing the understanding of ourselves: a system, th...2023-06-1355 min
Nucleate PodcastThe Beginning of the Microbe Metaverse | Cheri Ackerman, Concerto BiosciencesIntroducing Nucleate Signal, a celebration of the next generation of biotech leaders.
In this episode, host Emmanuella Nnuji-John is joined by guest Cheri Ackerman, the co-founder and CEO of Concerto Bioscience.2023-04-2140 min
Finding Genius PodcastNew Multi-Virus Diagnostic Method by Broad InstituteCheri Ackerman and Cameron Myhrvold explain their innovative new system to test for multiple viruses in one test. They explain The overarching goal of low cost alongside high scale allowing multiple diagnostics at once, How a microwell array chip and criprs cas-13 work together in this test, and How the timing of this test works and their future goals. Dr. Cheri Ackerman is the cofounder and CEO of Concerto Biosciences and Dr. Cameron Myhrvold is a post doc fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. In this podcast they discuss their project to d...2020-06-2600 min