Kelly Kaihara, PhD, serves as the Director of Life Science Tools & Diagnostics at General Inception since April 2021 and is actively involved in various mentoring and advisory roles, including positions at Nucleate and BioTools Innovator. With a Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Chicago and extensive postdoctoral training at the University of California, San Francisco, Kelly also pursued a Professional Sequence in Marketing Metrics and ROI at UC Berkeley and completed Venture Capital University at UC Berkeley's School of Law. Kelly's experience includes advisory roles at Partillion Bioscience and Saku Biosciences, while also participating in the advisory board of Nucleic Sensing Systems.