Cynthia Robbins-Roth is the founder of BioVenture Consultants, which provides strategic planning and technical/business assessment to the biotech industry. Her biotech column appears regularly in Forbes ASAP magazine, which named her one of the top 25 biotech All Stars of 1999 for her founding role in several of the key biotech industry business publications. She is author of Alternative Careers in Science and lives in San Mateo, California.