BackTable Urology
Ep. 196 Biodesign Insights: Embracing Risk and Innovation with Dr. Christopher Kinsella
Fri, 25 Oct 2024
Are you curious about the biotechnology startup world? Learn how our guest transitioned from trauma surgeon to entrepreneur in this episode of the BackTable Podcast. Dr. Chris Kinsella, CEO of Watershed Therapeutics and our host Dr. Bryan Hartley discuss the importance of using entrepreneurship to solve clinical needs. Watershed Therapeutics has created a novel bladder drug delivery platform to help women with recurrent urinary tract infections. --- SYNPOSIS The doctors systematically cover the process of identifying market needs, inventing solutions, bringing a product to the market, and managing risk. They also share examples of successful startup ventures and underscore the importance of perseverance, innovative thinking, and strategic market focus in forging a path to success. --- TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Introduction 04:30 - The Birth of a Surgical Trainer 07:04 - Challenges and Innovations in Trauma Surgery 22:06 - Evaluating and Killing Ideas 28:27 - Challenging Assumptions 29:53 - Meeting a Co-Founder 33:07 - Developing the Solution 37:29 - Raising Funds 40:28 - Navigating Regulatory Challenges and Market Expansion --- RESOURCES Watershed Therapeutics: https://www.watershedtx.com/ Stanford Biodesign Innovation Fellowship: https://biodesign.stanford.edu/programs/fellowships/innovation-fellowships.html
Full Episode
This week on the Backtable Podcast. You should be agnostic about the technology. You shouldn't care at all. And if you need to throw your entire technology out the window to come up with something better, that's completely fine because your success was never tied to your tech. It was always tied to solving the market need. So that gives you a lot of freedom.
The other way that I snap people out of this sometimes is I remind them that you could be right about what you're right about, but wrong about what you're wrong about. So you could give me all of these great reasons why your tech does exactly what you say it's going to do. And I'm not trying to have that conversation with you.
I'm having the conversation about even if you're right about your tech, it might still not work.
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Backtable, your source for all things urology. You can find all previous episodes on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and on backtable.com.
This is Brian Hartley, who's the host this week. I'm a radiologist living in Nashville and co-founder of an early stage device company in the imaging space. I'm very excited to introduce our next guest on the show, Dr. Chris Kinsella, a.k.a. Topher. Topher is an author, general surgeon, and entrepreneur.
His early days of entrepreneurship were centered around developing lifelike simulation dolls for medical training. He's now the CEO of an early stage drug device combo blattery drug delivery platform, it's a mouthful, called Watershed Therapeutics that has some exciting early results. He's also an author of Hidden Wombat, which he will elaborate on, I really hope.
He's also an expert on building custom Halloween costumes, so I can't wait to hear what's in store this year. Finally, he's a great friend of mine, which in my humble opinion is his biggest claim to fame. With that, Topher, welcome to the show. Thank you very much, Brian. Awesome. So great to have you. Always like to start out. Just tell us a little bit about yourself, kind of background.
What's your role now? Love to hear it.
I usually start by saying I'm St. Louisan, born and raised. Dot, dot, dot. Became a trauma surgeon. Married a California girl. You left out a lot there. Married a California girl. Moved the family out to California. did a very interesting innovation fellowship with you as a classmate, and then stumbled my way into becoming the CEO of Watershed Therapeutics, which is a drug delivery company.
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