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Keys to the kingdom

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  1. Sybil C K Wong, Laura S Sasportas and Katie Richardson: These authors contributed equally to this work.

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Oxbridge Biotech Roundtable, London, UK

    Sybil C K Wong & Daniel A Perez

  2. Departments of Bioengineering and Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

    Laura S Sasportas

  3. Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Katie Richardson

  4. BRGordon Partners, San Francisco, California, USA

    Brian R Gordon

  5. Department of Organic Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Madura K P Jayatunga

  6. Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

    Aryaman Shalizi

  7. CRUK MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, UK

    Sophia X Pfister

  8. Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, California, USA

    Erika G Stanzl

  9. NDM Research Building, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Cecilia Chui

  10. Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

    Melina Mathur

  11. Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Soren K Thomsen

  12. KNOX Medical Diagnostics, Inc., San Francisco, California, USA

    Charvi Shetty

  13. Doctoral Training Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Laurynas Pliuskys

  14. Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine University of California, San Francisco, California, USA

    Akhil Mehra

  15. Endocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Hila Bahar

  16. Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Jernej Godec

  17. Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Jernej Godec

  18. Department of Management Science & Innovation, University College London, London, UK

    Simcha Jong

  19. Department of Biochemistry, Glycobiology Institute, University of Oxford, UK

    Daniel A Perez

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D.A.P. is CEO and founder of the Oxbridge Biotech Roundtable and Hinge Health. S.C.K.W. works for the Oxbridge Biotech Roundtable as senior vice president, business development.

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Wong, S., Sasportas, L., Richardson, K. et al. Keys to the kingdom. Nat Biotechnol 33, 232–236 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3159

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