Michael Snyder is the founder of The Bioentrepreneurs, a monthly newsletter covering life sciences startups across Stanford, UCSF, and Berkeley. Most recently, he was the lead for Communicable Diseases Partnerships in R&D Finance at Johnson & Johnson, where he supported business development transactions and managed J&J's partnerships with Sanofi and GSK. He has also led syndicates to invest in early-stage life sciences startups. Michael holds an MBA and an MS in Bioengineering from Stanford, and previously conducted research at EPFL in Switzerland.