Don’t Let Your Science Get Lost in Translation

Despite record public funding and academic output, the bottleneck isn’t discovery. It’s translation to product.

I Back Scientists exists to change that. We believe the future belongs to scientists who build—those who take their ideas beyond the paper and into the world. Bridging the gap between lab and life means rethinking what it means to be a scientist. When should a paper become a prototype?

Who funds the next step?

How do you validate at scale without losing scientific rigor?

Where does your responsibility end—and what happens if it doesn’t?

Translation isn’t about handover.

It’s about ownership.

It’s about designing with patients in mind.

Working with regulators early.

Embracing risk—technical, human, and operational.

This mindset has changed the world before.

It’s how gene therapy moved from petri dish to protocol.

It’s how mRNA left the lab.

We need more scientists who take the next step. Because ideas alone don’t save lives.

Data doesn’t change systems.

People do. The world doesn’t just need more science.

It needs scientists who build.



I Back Scientists was founded by Vishal Gulati, MD, FMedSci, a physician-scientist and a venture investor. He has founded companies, joined mission-driven teams, and collaborated across startups, investment firms, and public institutions—all with the goal of moving science off the page and into practice.