One-on-One with Simone Fishburn of Women in Bio's new Bay Area chapter

At one of those many after-hours cocktail parties during the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in January, Simone Fishburn stopped me in a hallway.
As two caricaturists sketched party-goers a few feet away, Fishburn, a scientific consultant and former director of translational research at Nektar Therapeutics Inc., told me more about her latest venture: the San Francisco chapter of Women in Bio.
I had been hearing rumblings about a local chapter over the past few months, so Fishburn, the chair of the local chapter, filled me in about the group and what they hope to do. Fine, I said, call me when this gets going full force — and then she made me sit for one of the caricaturists.
Well, now is the time.