BASELAUNCH - Key Persons
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- Board Member, Bridge Biotherapeutics
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- Senior Scientist, SMR External Innovation & Medicinal Chemistry, PRED Roche Innovation Center Basel
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- Director Research Bern at CSL Behring
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- Vice President, Innovation Outreach at Novo Nordisk
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- Founder & CEO, Bridge Biotherapeutics
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- Director Search & Evaluation International, AbbVie
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- Managing Partner, Pureos Bioventures
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- Manager Research Innovation at CSL Behring
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- Manager Innovation & Sourcing
Before joining Basel Area Business & Innovation Martyna worked as a Project Leader at Redbiotec AG (pre-clinical stage biotech), where she was responsible for the design, development, and management of projects focused mainly on oncology and vaccine development.
Martyna holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Nicolaus Copernicus (Microbiology) in Poland and a Master's degree in Biology from the University of Zürich (Evolutionary Biology).
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- New Venture Lead, Johnson & Johnson Innovation
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- Senior Director, Minority Investments at Novo Nordisk
Neil is a serial entrepreneur with broad experience of the life science sector. He has founded, or otherwise been instrumental in the early development of multiple biotech ventures over the last 35 years, including Evolva (synthetic biology, founder & CEO, IPO Zurich), TopoTarget (oncology, founder, IPO Copenhagen), Biotage (microwave chemistry, founder, IPO Stockholm), PNAD (DNA diagnostics, CEO, trade sale), BIAcore (biosensors, VP Bus Dev, IPO NASDAQ) and Scientific Generics (head of marketing, IPO LSE).
In addition to BaseLaunch, Neil is currently a board member of Alentis Therapeutics (anti-fibrotic therapeutics), Unibio plc (protein from methane) and Sundew ApS (treating water transmitted diseases). Neil has a first-class degree in Zoology from the University of Oxford, and set-up his first venture straight out of university, benefitting from a very early venture accelerator that was run by the University of Stirling.
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- Director of Business Development
- Director Business Development & Operations
Stephan is Director of Business Development & Operations and also heads Therapeutics Innovation at Basel Area Business and Innovation. He has been deeply involved in establishing and building out BaseLaunch, and was involved in the sourcing, launch, growth, and successful financing of numerous biotech ventures. Stephan joined the organization from brief stints in medical affairs at Lipomed and research at Roche. He gained his Ph.D. in RNAi and epigenetics from Novartis`s Friedrich Miescher Institute, which also affiliated with the University of Basel. Stephan holds a Master's degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from ETH Zurich.
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- Executive Director, PHC Basel Site Head at Roche Pharma Partnering
Before joining Basel Area Business & Innovation Virginia Ballotta was the Country Manager Switzerland for Catalyze, where she helped biotech entrepreneurs and researchers acquire funding and shape their business strategy. She holds a Master`s degree in Bioengineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands), where her main research interests were tissue engineering and immunology.
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- Associate, Pureos Bioventures