Tobias Schmid Email & Phone Number

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Berkeley, California, Us

Support with fundraising, curriculum, and governance for the non-profit organization to help build the pipeline of high school students from underrepresented backgrounds in the field of biotechnology by attaining personal, academic, and professional development experiences with in-classroom instruction and paid internships within the biotech and health industries.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Abu Dhabi, Ae

• Building and investing in cutting edge biotech companies

• Engage with key stakeholders across multiple institutions and organizations• Mentor trainees in the Berkeley LSEC - Nucleate Bio Innovation Fellows program• Develop hands-on executive leadership experiencehttps://lsec.berkeley.edu/people/eirs-and-innovation-fellows

• Head of expansion efforts to create a non-profit, student-run life sciences venture program that facilitates the formation of new biotech companies at Berkeley, Stanford, and UCSF• Established the advisory board of leading Bay Area academic and industry entrepreneurs, building the operations team across three universities, and developing curriculum to provide practical startup mentorship for scientific and MBA traineeshttps://www.nucleate.xyz/bay-area

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Build new biotech ventures• Helped ideate and launch two companies in the fields of neurodegenerative disease and genetic medicine delivery

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Lead new initiatives that further our mission to accelerate careers and life science innovation for underrepresented minority (URM) scientists in the Bay Area.• Establish a sustainable summer internship/mentorship program for ten high school students to provide training and networking opportunities that expose them to the biotech industry• Create a new communication strategy to recruit URM trainees for BCBA projects• Partner with a Historically Black University and College (Howard University) to increase opportunities for students to form connections with the Bay Area• Develop relationship and secure consulting projects with biotech clients that have minority founders• Promote diversity in biotech by connecting with other graduate organizations to host monthly national diversity seminar series (www.diversifybiotech.org)

• Developed wireless microscope technology to image neural activity in freely flying bats• Established novel behavioral paradigms to study spatial navigation and vocal communication in the Egyptian fruit bat• Managed a team of two postdocs, two graduate students, and three undergraduates using effective communication to systematize parallel workflows

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Lead six consultants via cross-functional team work and hypothesis-based consulting• Manage communication among team, company founders, and key opinion leaders• Synthesize recommendations for business development based on market landscape analyses for a comparative biology-based drug development platform

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Engaged with key stakeholders and collaborated across disciplines to prioritize market opportunities of breakthrough treatments for psychiatric and neurological diseases

• Identified and sequenced genes that drive speciation events in songbirds using targeted gene enrichment, NextGen sequencing, and de novo genome assembly• Managed the administration of a large lab including shared resources, animal protocols and welfare, safety compliance, equipment inventory, and facilitated collaborations amongst lab members

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Neuroscience

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Neuroscience

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Spanish