Women in STEM with Kristina Torfgard
Introducing Kristina Torfgard! Holding a PhD in Clinical Pharmacology, she has over 30 years’ experience in drug development and is currently CEO of IRLAB Therapeutics.
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Introducing Kristina Torfgard! Holding a PhD in Clinical Pharmacology, she has over 30 years’ experience in drug development and is currently CEO of IRLAB Therapeutics.
Nadine Sprangers is Vice President, Head of Global Oncology Value, Access and Pricing at Daiichi Sankyo. Holding a PharmD degree and two Master’s Degrees, she leads a team of 50 people responsible for setting the global strategic framework for Pricing, Reimbursement, and Access (PRA), Health Economics and Outcome Research (HEOR),…
As Senior Vice President and Head of Global Medical Affairs & Outcomes Research at the global healthcare company Organon, Charlotte Owen’s extensive work is advancing women’s healthcare and overcoming health inequities.
As part of our series highlighting women in STEM, we spoke to Juliet Williams, Head of Research at Kymera. She discusses what inspired her early passion for science, the power of mentorship and what excites her most about the future of targeted protein degradation – and its potential to deliver…
We had the privilege of speaking to Morgane Rousselot, co-founder and CEO of SeaBeLife for our Women in Stem series. With a strong scientific background and over two decades of entrepreneurial experience in the biotechnology field, she leads the company with a team-focused approach and intellectual rigor.
Dr Danielle Meyrick holds a PhD in Physical Chemistry and Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry, and a Doctor of Medicine. Her early career was shaped by various scientific and medical residences at hospitals in the US and Australia. With over 20 years of experience, she is now Chief Medical Officer of ITM and…
Introducing Joanne Kanaan, CEO and co-founder of the French startup Omini. To meet the new challenges of decentralised and personalised healthcare, Omini is developing a multiplex blood testing platform for outpatient management using a new patented biosensor technology. Joanne obtained a PhD in biochemistry and biophysics from the Ecole Normale…
Dr H. Rachel Lagiakos is a Senior Principal Scientist in the Therapeutics Group at Schrödinger which she joined in 2018. She completed her PhD in Synthetic Organic Chemistry at Monash University and began her medicinal chemistry career at Cancer Therapeutics (CTx) in Melbourne, Australia in 2012. At CTx, Rachel’s contributions…
Join us for our Women in Stem series with Dr Vicky Marsh Durban, Director of Custom Organoid Services at Molecular Devices. Her highly successful career began with a PhD from Cardiff University in 2008 focusing on cancer genetics. She then completed a post-doctoral research scholarship at UCSF and a Research…
Dr Laura Figulla is the CEO of mbiomics. Laura co-founded mbiomics which is dedicated to unlocking the true value of the microbiome by developing next-generation live biotherapeutics (LBPs). Throughout her career, Laura has combined her entrepreneurial spirit with her diverse academic background in business, economics, and medicine to build companies that…
Lidia Pieri earned a Master’s degree with honours in high energy physics at CERN, a PhD in theoretical astroparticle physics from Rome-3 (Italy) and an Executive MBA in Business Innovation with honours from the MIB school in Trieste. During the academic period she gained international exposure and recognition working as…
Dr Christine Schuberth-Wagner serves as Chief Scientific Officer at CatalYm. She joined the company in November 2018 with more than 10 years of experience in drug discovery and non-clinical development of immunomodulatory drugs in the immuno-oncology space. She has established a track record as a successful leader and entrepreneur in the biotech…
Join us for our Women in STEM series with Delphine Guyon-Gellin, Chief Business Development Officer at Osivax. She joined the company in 2018 with 15 years of experience in vaccine business and strategy. Prior to her work at Osivax, Delphine worked as a strategic consultant for leading pharmaceutical companies, helping…
We had the privilege of talking to Dr Petra Dieterich, Senior Vice President at Abzena, about her highly successful career. After gaining her D.Phil in synthetic organic chemistry and an MBA from Imperial College London, she has held various leadership positions and has worked in the CRO and CDMO environment,…
Introducing Kratherine Tran! Katherine joined the SCIEX team with a strong desire to further the company’s mission of delivering solutions to advance human wellness. Her main area of interest is within mass spectrometry-based proteomics from which she has accumulated a wealth of knowledge and experience in this space over the…