Aquiles Carattino

There are two types of history, the one we remember and the one we don’t.

Altos Labs started after a scientific conference hosted at the US home of an Israeli venture capitalist (in California, nonetheless).

Salzburg is a special place for me because it is the symbol of the most serendipitous thing that ever happened to me: winning a paper airplane competition in Argentina and qualifying for the world cup organized in Red Bull’s hangar at Salzburg’s airport.

Many people, when faced with the struggle of stepping out of academia, ask themselves what are they going to miss after the transition.

Using Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) to identify exosomes seems like a fantastic idea, but a very hard to realize one.

Last week I was traveling by train and the man in front of me had his legs stretched towards the corridor.

Many professors are slowly starting to wear a secondary hat as startup founders.

Becoming an entrepreneur and a founder was definitely not in my plans when I started my PhD.

I always struggled to understand what a mentor, consultant, coach, or partner could do for me at different moments of my career.

I didn’t plan to write a programming book.

Cover letters are a complement to the curriculum vitae.

Writing a CV is challenging, and there are many different approaches.

Many PhD’s and Postdocs, sooner or later, will face some challenging career choices.

Creating a startup is an extremely personal endeavor.

All bodily fluids (urine, blood, saliva, milk, cerebrospinal fluid) contain extracellular vesicles at different concentrations and with different compositions.

When I started my first company, I brought with me my scientifically oriented way of thinking.

Professors can have a crucial role by nurturing and supporting this career path, but from the sidelines.

Effectual reasoning, as opposed to causal reasoning, can be defined as the ability to chase goals based on resources available.

One of the biggest hurdles for entrepreneurs is that they need to juggle short and long term planning at the same time.

To give some context, I can use my personal experience as an example.