Lab Report

July 18, 2019
No. 97

Featured story

Solving a problem or discovering something new often requires access to tools. World-changing inventions can lead to world-changing innovation, and improving access to tools can improve access to discovery.

Tool Foundry, a Luminary Labs initiative supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Schmidt Futures, is advancing accessible tools for scientific discovery. This week, we announced the five teams who will join Tool Foundry’s four-month accelerator, a program designed to turn accessible tool prototypes into sustainable businesses.

Read more and meet the cohort teams.

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Tool Foundry isn’t the only accelerator launching this month. We’re running our own internal accelerator to push our storytelling and writing skills even further.

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The Moonshot Catalog is a new index of “big doable projects for a forward-looking future.”

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Congratulations to the 10 companies joining the inaugural class of the Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator.

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Total drug overdose deaths in America declined last year, the first drop since 1990 — but still exceeded peak annual deaths from car crashes, AIDS, or guns.

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Amazon plans to spend $700 million over about six years to retrain a third of its U.S. workforce.

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Will you be at VOICE Summit next week? Luminary Labs CEO Sara Holoubek will join a panel discussion on voice tech investment and adoption trends in healthcare.

BARDA’s DRIVe Accelerator Network stimulates public-private partnerships that spur innovation and investment in health security products and technologies. Apply for the grant opportunity by July 22.

Johnson & Johnson’s JLABS is hiring a Director of BARDA Alliance in Washington, D.C.

Numero is hiring a Chief of Staff and Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco.

We’re hiring an Associate or Senior Associate in New York. Please share these openings with your network.

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