Welcome to my corner of the internet
A short introduction: who I am, and what I write about here.
Welcome. This is the first post here, so a short note on what this site is and who is writing it.
Who I am
I'm Richard Freeman. I started out at the bench with a PhD in molecular biology, then moved through commercial roles at Thermo Fisher, Roche, and Roslin Technologies into proteomics at Illumina, where I am now. The thread running through all of it is the same: science that is genuinely hard, and the work of getting it into the right hands.
What I care about
I also run a small consultancy, Cervus, and have spent a good deal of time around the cultivated-meat world. Mostly, though, I am interested in the same thing I always have been: helping good science find its footing commercially, without losing what made it good science in the first place.
What you'll find here
A few recurring threads:
- selling to scientists, and why it is its own discipline
- the move from the bench to the commercial side
- the occasional technical deep-dive (qPCR, proteomics, whatever I am close to)
- experiments with AI tools, including the fact that I built this site largely with Claude
Say hello
If any of that resonates, or you just want to compare notes, my inbox is open. You can reach me by email or on LinkedIn.