From Amazon to Biotech: Chandima’s Mission to Save Lives

Описание: 🎯 Bullpen: Moneyball Series – Episode 2
He left ‪@amazon‬ to save lives.

In this episode of the Translation Podcast, we sit down with Chandima Bandaranayaka, CEO of Precision Quantomics, who walked away from a successful operations career at Amazon to tackle one of the biggest problems in biotech: clinical trial failure.

💊 Did you know?
Only 1 in 10 drugs make it to market.
Of those that fail, nearly 50% fail due to toxicity — often discovered too late, during human trials.

Chandima and his team at Precision Quantomics are using quantitative proteomics to help pharmaceutical companies de-risk drug development, identify toxicity biomarkers earlier, and save both lives and money.

In this conversation, we talk about:

Why clinical trials fail — and how to fix it

Leaving Amazon for a biotech startup

The power of proteomics in drug development

Lessons from founding multiple startups

Navigating funding (SBIR, HSSA, strategic partnerships)

Work-life harmony in the startup grind

What it takes to build the right team

🧠 Whether you're a biotech founder, investor, student, or just curious about the future of medicine — this one's for you.

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