Stephanie Culler PhD - Cancer & the Gut Biome - Co-founder of VC-Backed Persephone Microbiome

· Persephone’s Business Model Is to Partner with Big Pharma to Develop Products Based on Its Platform

· A Probiotic for Babies and Infants Is Coming in Early 2024

· Results from the Largest Study in the US of Infant Gut Microbiome Were Unsettling

· Causes of Insufficiencies in the Gut Biome of Babies

· “Upwards of 80% of cells of our immune system is in our gut.”

· “...if you have a good microbiome, you're much more likely to respond to treatment.”

· “We are wet lab and in silico.”

· How Persephone Got Funded

· The Importance of Enrolling Populations Previously Under-represented in Studies

· The Promise of Population-Scale Data Sets

· Scanning Large Patient Populations Unencumbered by Animal Studies

· Why You Should Help This Podcast Get Found

· Stephanie Culler, Ph.D.’s Entrepreneurial Journey

· Entrepreneurial Family that Lost Two Grandmothers to Cancer

· Sal’s Appreciation of Articulate Chemical Engineers Like Stephanie

· Stephanie’s Experience at Y Combinator

· How Stephanie Culler Connected with Leen Kawas