Day 2 - Wednesday 1st April @ 13:10
5-Minute Presentations - Innovator Showcase
1:10 Dr Julie Zhou, Head of Corporate Development, Delonix Bioworks
1:15 - “A First-in-Class Therapeutic Vaccine for Chronic Inflammation” Sean McLoughlin, CEO, Denteric
1:20 - Dr Ivo Ploeman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Praetorian Bio
1:25 - 'Transforming Viral Immune Surveillance & Drug Discovery'Linda D. Chilin, MS, Associate Research Scientist, Athari Biosciences
1:30 Asel Sartbaeva, CEO, Ensilitech
1:35 Dr Robert Ernst, Founder & SAB Chair, TollereBio
1:40 Patty Tawardos, CEO, Donor X
1:45 Luciana Leite, Founder, BCGene
1:50 Sarah-Meryll Buet, CEO, Alkion BioInnovations
1:55 Gregory Smith, CSO & Co-Founder, Thyreos Vaccines
2:00 - "Building the Future of Bacterial Prevention: Advancing Phage Prophylaxis for Cholera" - Dr Minmin Yen, CEO & Co-Founder, PhagePro
2:05 Professor Juliane Bubeck Wardenburg, Founder, Forward Defense LLC
Asel Sartbaeva, co-founder and CEO,
EnsiliTech

Asel Sartbaeva is a CEO and a co-founder of EnsiliTech and co-inventor of Ensilication® technology. Asel got her Masters and PhD in Mineral Physics from the University of Cambridge in 2004, where she started working on silica-based materials. In 2010, at the University of Oxford, she won a Royal...
Luciana Leite, Founder and Scientifica Advisor,
BCGene

Senior Researcher at the Vaccine Development Laboratory, Butantan Institute. She specializes in molecular biology applied to vaccine development, mainly using recombinant BCG technology and has participated in several of the Brazilian genomic projects with over 150 papers published and several...
Minmin Yen, CEO & Co-Founder,
PhagePro, P.B.C.

Dr. Minmin (Mimi) Yen (she/her) is CEO and Co-Founder of PhagePro, P.B.C., a biotechnology company reimagining bacterial disease prevention worldwide. PhagePro develops precision bacteriophage prophylactics designed to prevent infection before it starts. Its lead program, Prophylytic-Vc (PVC), is...
Juliane Bubeck Wardenburg, CEO,
Forward Defense LLC

Dr. Juliane Bubeck Wardenburg is the Donald B. Strominger Professor and Executive Vice Chair of Pediatrics and Chief of Pediatric Critical Care at Washington University. She received her M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Washington University, subsequently pursuing General Pediatrics and Pediatric...
Robert Ernst, SAB Chair,
TollereBio

Robert (Bob) K. Ernst, Ph.D. is the Dr. Paul and Mrs. Jean Corcoran Endowed Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbial Pathogenesis at the University of Maryland -Baltimore and a Distinguished University Professor. He is also a co-founder of the biotechnology companies Pataigin and...
Linda Chilin, Research Scientist,
Athari BioSciences

Linda D. Chilin is an accomplished research scientist with expertise in translational diagnostics, infectious disease research, and therapeutic development. She is an Associate Research Scientist at Athari BioSciences, where she leads CLIA validation studies and contributes to cancer drug...
Sean McLoughlin, CEO,
Denteric

Sean brings more than 25 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, spanning early development through to launch and commercial success. At GSK, he led cross-functional teams that delivered two of the industry’s most successful vaccines, Shingrix and Arexvy, and contributed to reshaping ...