I started Science Exchange to solve my own problem as a breast cancer researcher who was frustrated with the process of farming out experiments.

I'm the founder and CEO of Science Exchange, a marketplace for scientific collaboration where researchers can order experiments from the world's best labs.

In a hundred years, Science Exchange will continue to enable scientific breakthroughs by providing infrastructure for collaboration among researchers.

The decision to initiate the reproducibility initiative was a game-changer for Science Exchange, enhancing its branding and opening doors to pharmaceutical partnerships.

The biggest challenge for Science Exchange when it started was convincing the conservative pharmaceutical industry to use the platform.

Marketplaces like Science Exchange need to be the platform that companies use for all their projects, not just a one-off shopping experience, to be truly effective.

We're building a platform for scientific collaboration, connecting researchers and improving the efficiency of scientific research.

I'm Elizabeth Iorns, founder and CEO of Science Exchange, a marketplace for outsourced research and development, working with major pharmaceutical and science companies.

I'm Elizabeth Iorns, the founder and CEO of Science Exchange, and I have a background in cancer biology, having completed my PhD at the Institute of Cancer Research in London and a postdoc at the University of Miami before starting Science Exchange in 2011 as part of Y Combinator's summer batch.