Generate Market Research on Pharmaceuticals and Medicine Accessibility

The student will be expected to generate detailed, high-quality, market research on the current state of the pharmaceutical industry. There will be a focus on orphan drugs, unaffordable medicines, and crucial currently inaccessible medicines. We are a startup aiming to create a new, low-cost complementary method to synthesize lifesaving medicines. The prospective student would be expected to provide market research on the pharmaceutical markets so that we can understand the needs of the markets and where to focus our efforts, as well as to use the market research in presentations and information for investors.

Learn HPLC and work in a research lab analyzing secondary plant metabolites

Our company researches plant secondary metabolites and ways to generate commercially useful compounds using those enzymatic pathways. We are looking for a student to assist us in this research via hands-on experiments. Our constantly expanding seed library aims to cover all of the common and readily available crop plant families, as well as less common ones to ensure the broadest coverage for available genes. The genes that allow plants to produce the hundreds of thousands of known secondary metabolites are spread out through many families and even species, so unlocking the full potential of HAP starts with a strong and diverse germplasm catalogue.

Natural Plant Enzymes meet Synthetic Chemicals

The main goal for the project is to explore the reaction of natural plant enzymes when they encounter completely synthetic chemicals that are not found in nature. This will involve studying the biochemical processes involved and understanding how plants react to these synthetic chemicals at a molecular level. The project aims to contribute to the development of natural enzyme promiscuity in botany and provide insights into how plants react metabolically to synthetic compounds.

Help Build an Online Community

Students will be tasked with growing the online community of our company's flagship project "HAP". This project aims to generate new methods to create synthetic medicines via natural (non-GMO) plants. We want to create a community as a source for ideas and resources for creating these medicines. There will be pre-outlined roles in the community that users can play. For a full overview of our community model, visit the link on our website: https://hap.bio/hap-culture/. The student will be responsible for doing outreach and advertising to attract people who are interested in HAP's goals and can contribute as one of the roles outlined on the website. This includes creating visualizations that can be shared on social media to raise awareness and intrigue about the project.