Amber Saltzman (Ohana)

Flag­ship's first ven­ture of 2020 is out, and it's all about sperm

A cou­ple years ago, Am­ber Salz­man got a call as she was re­turn­ing East full-time af­ter a two-year stint run­ning a gene ther­a­py com­pa­ny in Cal­i­for­nia.

It was from some­one at Flag­ship Pi­o­neer­ing, the deep-pock­et­ed biotech ven­ture firm. They had a new com­pa­ny with a new way of think­ing about sperm. It had been in­cu­bat­ing for over a year, and now they want­ed her to run it.

“It ex­act­ly fit,” Salz­man told End­points News. “I just thought I had to do some­thing.”

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