Who or what called you to lead?
If you are working in life sciences you are not short of purpose.
We have learned over the past few years of connecting with 100s of CEOs and founder across Europe, that many of them have personal stories that motivate them.
Theses stories should be heard and in turn inspire others:
Meet the LifeScience ORG CEO
Name: Andrea Chicca
Company: Synendos Therapeutics
Company Focus: Developing breakthrough therapies for neuropsychiatric disorders
Founded: 2019
Location: Basel, Switzerland
Stage: Series A, Clinical Stage
Meet the nextGEN member
Name: Nico Weigand
Company: Symphera
Company Focus: Improving the efficiency of laparoscopic surgery
Founded: 2023
Location: Munich, Germany
Stage: Prototyping, Seed
Meet the nextGEN member
Name: Sam Windsor
Company: Ignota Labs
Company Focus: Drug Turnaround using AI to understand the root cause of safety problems
Founded: 2021
Location: London, UK
Stage: Preclinical, Seed
Meet the LifeScience ORG CEO
Name: Amir Hefni
Company: Resolution Therapeutics
Company Focus: Pioneering regenerative macrophage therapy for inflammatory and fibrotic diseases
Founded: 2020
Location: UK & US
Stage: Clinical phase I/II
Meet the nextGEN member
Name: Michal Shoshan
Company: metaLead Therapeutics
Company Focus: Developing treatments for metal-related diseases
Founded: 2023
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Stage: Pre-seed, preclinical
Meet the LifeScience ORG CEO
Name: Barnaby Balmforth
Company: Biofidelity
Company Focus: Making genomic analysis simpler and more accessible
Founded: 2019
Location: Cambridge, UK and Raleigh-Durham, NC
Stage: Early commercial stage
Meet the nextGEN member
Name: Omar El Nahhas
Company: StratifAI
Company Focus: Multimodal artificial intelligence biomarkers to identify responders of cancer treatments
Founded: 2023
Location: Berlin, Germany
Stage: Seed, commercial stage
Meet the LifeScience ORG CEO
Name: Camilla Easter
Company: Oxford Medical Products
Company Focus: Gastro retentive technology for treating obesity and drug delivery
Founded: 2017
Location: Witney, Oxford UK
Stage: Phase II Clinical
Meet the nextGEN member
Name: Benjamin Winkeljann
Company: RNhale
Company Focus: Inhalable RNA-loaded dry powder for therapeutic delivery for treating pulmonary disease
Founded: 2023
Location: Munich, Germany
Stage: Seed stage, pre-clinical
Meet the nextGEN member
Name: Nathalie Donne
Company: ErVimmune
Company Focus: Therapeutic vaccines and T-cell therapies using non-conventional cancer epitopes derived from endogenous retroviruses
Founded: 2019
Location: Lyon, France
Stage: Preclinical / series A
Meet the LifeScience ORG CEO
Name: Dan Crowley
Company: RemedyBio
Company Focus: Secretomics Discovery for Cancer & Autoimmune Diseases
Founded: 2020
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Stage: Preclinical
Meet the nextGEN member
Name: Sanae Salhi
Company: DiaDeep
Company Focus: Improving patient outcomes with AI models for oncologists to help them decide on the correct treatments
Founded: 2022
Location: Lyon, France
Stage: Commercial phase, Seed funded
Meet the LifeScience ORG CEO
Name: Sven Zimmermann
Company: Inotrem
Company Focus: Immunomodulation therapy taming inflammatory responses in disease
Founded: 2013
Location: Paris, France
Stage: Clinical Phase IIb; Series B
Meet the nextGEN member
Name: Maria Vistnes
Company: Klyv Therapeutics AS
Company Focus: Developing anti-fibrotic therapies for heart failure and fibrotic diseases
Founded: 2023
Location: Oslo, Norway
Stage: Lead optimisation Preclin, Pre-seed
Meet the LifeScience ORG CEO
Name: Wim Vos
Company: radiomics.bio
Company Focus: Extracting actionable data from medical imaging for cancer treatment
Founded: 2016
Location: Liège, Belgium
Stage: Commercial
Meet the nextGEN member
Name: Mikkel Precht
Company: Alcolase
Company Focus: Treating alcohol intolerance
Founded: 2020
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Stage: Product development, pre-seed
Meet the LifeScience ORG CEO
Name: Jérome Marzinski
Company: OxSonics Therapeutics
Company Focus: Ultrasound-Based Drug Delivery
Founded: 2013
Location: Oxford, UK
Stage: Phase I/II, Series B
Meet the nextGEN member
Name: Uirá Souto Melo
Company: Lucid Genomics
Company Focus: Whole genome analysis for personalised medicine
Founded: 2024
Location: Berlin, Germany
Stage: Pre-seed
Meet the nextGEN member
Name: James Dooley
Company: Aila Biotech
Company Focus: Treating neuroinflammatory damage with groundbreaking gene-delivery technology that crosses the blood-brain barrier
Founded: 2021
Location: Cambridge, UK
Stage: Pre-seed, Pre-clinical
Meet the LifeScience ORG CEO
Name: Lu Alleruzzo
Company: Immunophotonics
Company Focus: Systemic immunotherapy to combat solid tumour cancers
Founded: 2012
Location: Bern, Switzerland; St Louis, MO
Stage: Clinical