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RESI San Diego 2026 Program Guide Released 

16 Jun

By Dennis Ford, Founder & CEO, Life Science Nation (LSN)

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Life Science Nation (LSN) is pleased to release the RESI San Diego 2026 Program Guide for its upcoming hybrid conference, taking place June 22 in person at the JULEP Venue in San Diego, followed by four days of virtual partnering on June 23–24 and June 29–30. 

RESI San Diego brings together early-stage life science companies, active investors, strategic partners, and industry leaders during one of the most important weeks in biotechnology. The conference features the Innovator’s Pitch Challenge, investor panels, educational workshops, company showcases, and a dynamic partnering platform designed to facilitate meaningful fundraising and business development conversations. 

The Program Guide provides a comprehensive look at this year’s agenda, including sessions covering therapeutics, medtech, diagnostics, digital health, corporate venture capital, artificial intelligence in healthcare, strategic partnerships, and emerging investment trends. Attendees can also explore participating investors, sponsors, exhibitors, and networking opportunities available throughout the five-day partnering event. 

With partnering already underway and meeting calendars continuing to fill, RESI San Diego offers a unique opportunity for innovators to connect directly with the investors and strategic stakeholders shaping the future of healthcare. 

View the RESI San Diego 2026 Program Guide and secure your place today at RESI San Diego.

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Meet RESI Gold Sponsor RSM: Supporting Life Science Companies Through Growth and Transformation 

16 Jun

By Caitlin Dolegowski, Program Director, LSN

As a Gold Sponsor of RESI San Diego 2026, RSM is committed to helping life science companies navigate the financial, operational, and strategic challenges that come with growth and innovation. In this interview, Keith DePhillips and Michael Romano share insights into today’s life science landscape, discuss the challenges emerging biotech and medtech companies are facing, and explain how RSM supports organizations as they prepare for fundraising, commercialization, and other critical milestones. They also highlight what their team is looking forward to most at RESI San Diego and the types of companies they hope to meet during the event.

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Discover the Innovators: 14 Pitch Sessions Showcasing Emerging Life Science Companies 

9 Jun

By Max Braht, VP of Business Development, LSN

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The Innovator’s Pitch Challenge (IPC) returns to RESI San Diego with an exciting lineup of 14 pitch sessions showcasing emerging companies from across the life science ecosystem. Finalists represent a broad range of innovation spanning Therapeutics, Medical Devices, Diagnostics, and Digital Health, highlighting the technologies shaping the future of healthcare.

These sessions provide RESI attendees with a unique opportunity to discover breakthrough technologies and engage directly with the entrepreneurs driving them forward. Each company will present in front of a panel of active investors and strategic partners, participate in live Q&A discussions, and receive valuable feedback from industry experts.

In addition to presenting during their assigned pitch session, all IPC finalists will showcase their companies in the RESI exhibition area through dedicated pitch posters. This format allows attendees to explore innovative technologies at their own pace, connect directly with company leadership, and schedule follow-up discussions with promising startups throughout the conference.

The Innovator’s Pitch Challenge culminates with the presentation of RESI Cash awards, recognizing standout companies from across the competition. Award recipients will also be featured in Life Science Nation’s Next Phase newsletter, providing additional visibility among the global RESI community.

More than a competition, the Innovator’s Pitch Challenge serves as a platform for fundraising companies to gain visibility, validate their value proposition, and build meaningful relationships with investors, strategic partners, and industry leaders from around the world.

See the full list of pitching companies below:

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Don’t Underestimate the Importance of the Line 

9 Jun

By Dennis Ford, Founder & CEO, Life Science Nation (LSN)

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There is a line between deciding to pursue investors and partners and pursuing them. Most people believe they cross it the moment they decide. They don’t. Deciding is private. The line is the part the market can see, and the market only sees behavior. You can be completely certain you are committed and still be, as far as anyone outside your own head can tell, standing exactly where you were a year ago.

The market doesn’t care what you declare. It responds to what you do. What it reads is presence, whether you are in the room when it counts. There are moments when it counts more than others, when the people who fund and license and partner are not scattered across a thousand calendars but gathered in one place at one time, looking for their next opportunity. Those moments are real, and they are on the calendar. The wave forms whether you are ready or not. The only question it puts to you is whether you are in the water when it arrives.

Here is the part that surprises people. The companies that are serious about this do not try to be efficient about it. You would think the sophisticated move is to be selective, to take only the meetings that obviously matter and skip the rest. It isn’t, and there is a hard reason why. The meeting that changes your company does not announce itself going in. The lead investor is hidden inside a large number of conversations that look, beforehand, exactly like the ones that lead nowhere. The licensing partner is buried in a stack of introductions you cannot tell apart until you are sitting in them. You cannot reason your way to the one that counts and avoid the others. The only way to reach it is to go through the volume. So the serious company does not look for reasons to take fewer meetings. It looks for reasons to take more, because every additional relevant room is another draw from the deck the one card is hidden in. Most of the draws are blanks. That is not a flaw in the method. That is the method.

Activity guarantees nothing, and no one who has done this for long will tell you otherwise. What inactivity guarantees is the opposite. The company that is not in the room is not weighed, and ends up passed over. It is simply never seen, and the market does not hold a seat open for the company that didn’t show. It gives the seat to one that did. Which brings me to the week of June 22 in San Diego. That is a week the market gathers. The city fills with meetings, events, and venues all competing for the same hours, and RESI, on June 22, is built for exactly the thing I have been describing, a room assembled out of investors, licensing teams, and business development people who came specifically to find companies like yours.

Some of you reading this are already going to be there. You have a reason to be in San Diego that week, and you still have not decided to be in this particular room. Sit with that for a second. You will be in the same city, on the same days, with the market gathered a few miles away, and you are on the fence about walking in. There is a word for standing that close to the water, dressed to swim, watching the set roll past. The word is not caution. It is hesitation, and from the outside the market cannot tell the difference between a company that hesitated and a company that was never there.

The line we started with is not crossed by deciding you are ready. It is crossed in the open, by being where the market is while the market is there. If you believe you are ready, the week of June 22 is where that belief becomes visible or doesn’t. Register for RESI San Diego, June 22.

Don’t underestimate the importance of the line.

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RESI Innovator’s Pitch Challenge Winner Amets Biotechnology on Advancing Gene Therapies for Rare Diseases 

2 Jun

By Caitlin Dolegowski, Program Director, LSN

In this interview, Nicholas Weber of Amets Biotechnology discusses the company’s work advancing gene therapies for rare pediatric diseases, including PFIC2, and shares insight into the future of rare disease innovation. Amets Biotechnology was recognized at RESI Europe as an Innovator’s Pitch Challenge winner for its promising next-generation gene therapy approach. 

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Innovator’s Pitch Challenge: Where Deals Start

19 May

By Max Braht, VP of Business Development, LSN

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At most conferences, startup pitch competitions are treated as side programming. Founders present a deck, judges select winners, applause follows, and the event moves on.

At RESI San Diego, the Innovator’s Pitch Challenge (IPC) is designed differently.

The IPC is not simply about winning a competition. It is designed to help early-stage life science companies generate investor attention, create business development momentum, and accelerate conversations that continue long after the presentation ends.

For many companies, that interaction becomes the most valuable part of the experience.

“The discussions also felt far more relationship-driven than transactional,” said Sian Farrell, CEO of StimOxyGen. “Conversations extended beyond the pitch itself and focused on clinical strategy, regulatory pathways, commercialization, and long-term value creation.”

Unlike standalone pitch competitions, the IPC is integrated directly into the larger RESI partnering ecosystem. Participating companies also receive partnering access, poster presentation visibility, and exposure throughout the conference environment, creating multiple opportunities for follow-up interaction.

“The combination of the presentation and the partnering platform made a significant difference,” said Bram de Moor, CEO of You2Yourself. “RESI brought us into direct contact with European and transatlantic life science investors who specifically seek early-stage diagnostic and biomarker companies — an audience difficult to reach through cold outreach.”

The IPC also introduces an interactive audience component through “RESI cash,” distributed to attendees during registration. Participants allocate their RESI cash to the companies they believe demonstrate the strongest potential, creating additional visibility and engagement throughout the event.

For founders navigating today’s capital environment, opportunities that combine exposure with concentrated investor access are increasingly valuable.

As fundraising conditions continue to demand stronger differentiation and clearer commercialization pathways, platforms that help companies sharpen messaging and generate high-quality investor interaction have become increasingly important.

At RESI, the IPC is intended to serve exactly that purpose.

Selected companies receive:

  • Two 5-day RESI registrations
  • A six-minute company presentation followed by seven minutes of investor Q&A
  • Poster presentation space
  • Full partnering access
  • Exposure to investors, strategic partners, and pharma business development teams throughout Convention Week

For many founders, the IPC becomes more than a presentation opportunity. It becomes the place where investor conversations begin, strategic relationships form, and fundraising momentum accelerates.

Applications for the Innovator’s Pitch Challenge at RESI San Diego are currently open, with limited presentation slots remaining.

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Mastering the Hybrid Hustle: Right Partnering Strategies at Convention Week

19 May

By Caitlin Dolegowski, Program Director, LSN

Partnering conferences are a vital catalyst in an early-stage company’s journey toward securing capital and achieving milestone fundraising goals.

To help you get the absolute most bang for your buck during San Diego Convention Week, here are the top 8 strategies to maximize your ROI on the partnering meetings.

  1. Book Your Registration and Travel Early

Beyond the financial perks, registering early ensures that you are among the very first attendees to gain access to the Partnering system when it opens. In the world of fundraising, the early bird gets the open calendar slot before an investor’s schedule is completely booked.

  1. Perfect Your Partnering Profile Before Sending a Single Message

Once your partnering login hits your inbox, don’t rush straight to messaging. First, meticulously fill out your company profile, detail your tech, and upload your marketing materials (pitch deck and executive summary).

Investors will vet your profile page before hitting “Accept” on a meeting request; an incomplete profile is an automatic decline.

  1. Treat Your Meeting Requests Like a High-Value Pitch

When you begin reaching out to the hundreds of investors, your message needs to be crisp and compelling. Investors want to see specific data points right away. Ensure your meeting requests concisely address:

  • The Hook: Introduce yourself and your company.
  • The Tech: Clearly explain the product/platform.
  • The Market: What critical unmet medical need does it address?
  • The Edge: What does the competition look like, and why are you better?
  • The Traction: Major landmarks, IP status, or clinical achievements to date.
  • The Ask: Current financing needs and exactly how the capital will be used.
  1. Aggressively Fill Your Calendar

Fundraising is a numbers game. Use the partnering system’s advanced filter functions to map out investors who strictly match your company’s sector, indication, and fundraising size. Remember: Most investors will not contact you proactively. You must drive the outreach.

  1. Skip the Morning Rush: Grab Your Badge Early

Most conferences allow you to pick your event badge early. Keep an eye out for the early registration announcements. Picking up your badge a day early allows you to beat the morning lines, scope out the venue, and map your routes between partnering tables and panels so you don’t waste a single minute.

  1. There Are No Breaks in Fundraising

The in-person day in San Diego is an immersive networking marathon. Socializing over breakfast, lunch, and during the evening cocktail reception is just as critical as your scheduled partnering slots. Keep your elevator pitch polished, have your digital business cards or QR codes ready, and be prepared to network with everyone around you. You never know who you might sit next to at lunch.

  1. Be Flexible and Consider All Meeting Types

If an investor turns down a formal meeting request due to a scheduling conflict, do not give up. Use the flexibility of the multiple partnering days to find a slot. Even if a mutual window can’t be found within the conference dates, use the platform to pivot and pitch an ad-hoc meeting via Zoom or a coffee chat outside the formal boundaries.

  1. Network Peer-to-Peer

While investors are the primary target, remember the immense value of talking to fellow founders, CEOs, and service providers. Building a network of peers allows you to share fundraising intelligence, compare notes on active investors, and discover trusted vendors.

Think Big: Build a Full-Year Partnering Runway

Because fundraising is a continuous effort, looking at a single event in isolation can leave gaps in your capital pipeline. LSN hosts five RESI conferences a year globally, feeding into an internal database tracking over 10,000 early-stage life science investors across Venture Capital, Family Offices, Angels, and Corporate Venture arms.

To maintain unstoppable momentum from summer into fall, look into options like the RESI San Diego & RESI Boston Bundle, which locks in your 5-Day Hybrid passes for both the June San Diego and September Boston events. Plan your milestones around the RESI calendar, start your outreach early, and put your best foot forward this June!

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