Hey all,
Does anyone have experience breaking into the biotech industry without a directly related undergraduate degree (Bio, Chem, PreMed, etc.)?
How did you brush up enough on the basic knowledge to reach the bare minimum to be fluent in the industry (assuming you never reach full technical competency)?
How much technical and industry knowledge did you need to accumulate before you felt you reached investment competency?
SBs all 'round if anyone can shed some light here
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What area of biotech? Like an actual biotech company? Or biotech IB / HF / consulting.
It depends. But for hedge funds - there are several biotech analysts who don’t have a technical background. The founder of Ecor1 majored in poli sci in college.
Personally I work in a Biopharma IB group and I’m literally our only analyst out of 6 that has a technical background - so it’s not a requirement by any means.
Now breaking into biotech VC, or into bus dev at a pharma company w/o a technical background may be more difficult
thanks for the reply. SB
I should have been more specific as I meant an actual company in the field but I figure the same approach would apply to financial institutions who invested in it as well, which, given my background, might form a natural beachhead.
Have you seen many / any folks jump from IB / HF / VC into a startup or more mature biotech company?
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