17.08.2026

Alithea Bio Summer Stories, Get every story in full!

Alithea Bio summer Stories
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1 Alithea Bio Summer Stories
1.1 Get every story, in full
1.2 The season so far
1.2.1 The biggest surprises a recent graduate faces joining the biotech industry
1.2.2 It was during a chat at my wife’s birthday party when I first got inspired by the HLA Compass…
1.2.3 What do cancer therapies and perfumes have in common?
1.2.4 AI and the future of work
1.3 See the library behind the stories: the HLA-Compass demo
1.3.1 Don’t miss what’s next

Alithea Bio Summer Stories

Brain food for hot summer days. 100% human intelligence. Short, personal stories from our team — science, deep tech, and commercial insight, straight from our own “Dream Team.”

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The season so far

Four episodes in. Here’s a glimpse of each — subscribe to read them in full.

Episode 1 · University to Biotech

The biggest surprises a recent graduate faces joining the biotech industry

University teaches you to evaluate science. Nobody teaches you it also has to be pitched, funded, and explained. Our summer intern on Bio:cap Berlin, blurred job titles at a startup, and why asking “basic” questions is a hire-worthy trait.

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Episode 2 · HLA-Compass Genesis

It was during a chat at my wife’s birthday party when I first got inspired by the HLA Compass…

How a napkin idea for putting peptide data online became a multi-tenant, AI-assisted SaaS platform — and the moment at the TCR Summit in Boston that convinced the team the field was just getting started.

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Episode 3 · Cancer Therapies & Perfumes

What do cancer therapies and perfumes have in common?

You cannot cure cancer with perfumes. But a rebutted Nobel-adjacent theory about how we smell turns out to explain something immunologists still can’t answer about T cell receptors — and why measuring beats predicting.

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Episode 4 · AI & the Future of Work

AI and the future of work

Everyone else is arguing about billion-dollar one-person companies. This one makes the opposite case — accountability can’t be automated, and why the real bottleneck of the AI era is trust between organizations, not speed within one.

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See the library behind the stories: the HLA-Compass demo

Episodes 2 and 3 both circle back to the same platform — where measured, real-world presentation data actually lives. Here’s a walkthrough of HLA-Compass itself.

HLA-Compass Demo: The AI Platform Transforming Immunopeptidomics & Cancer Research — watch on YouTube

Don’t miss what’s next

New Summer Stories episodes land every couple of days this August. Subscribe so the next one lands straight in your inbox.

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