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: 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
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
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
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
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
Meet the nextGEN
Name: Pedro Correa de Sampaio
Company: Neobe Therapeutics
Location: Stevenage, UK
Meet the nextGEN
Name: Armend Håti
Company: ClexBio
Company Focus: Bioengineered, regenerative implants
Founded: 2020
Location: Oslo, Norway
Stage: Preclinical
Meet the LifeScience ORG CEO
Name: Per Walday
Company: Exact Therapeutics
Company Focus: Acoustic-Mediated Therapies
Founded: 2012
Location: Oslo, Norway
Stage: Phase I
Meet the nextGEN
Name: Sapan Gandhi
Company: Drishti Discoveries
Company Focus: Artificial miRNA Technology for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Founded: 2019
Location: Cambridge, UK
Stage: Preclinical
Meet the LifeScience ORG CEO
Name: Juliane Bernholz
Company: AM-Pharma
Company Focus: Cardiac Surgery-Associated Renal Damage
Founded: 2001
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands
Stage: Phase III
Meet the nextGEN
Name: Jan Pietras
Company: myotwin
Company Focus: Digital Twin of the Human Heart Muscle
Founded: 2023
Location: Göttingen, Germany
Stage: Preclinical
Meet the nextGEN
Name: Christian Kersten
Company: AKIGAI
Company Focus: Repurposing EGFR Inhibitors for Neuropathic Pain
Founded: 2023
Location: Oslo, Norway
Stage: Preclinical
Meet the nextGEN
Name: Janette Thomas
Company: 5AlarmBio
Company Focus: Age-Related Chronic Diseases
Founded: 2016
Location: Cambridge, UK
Stage: Preclinical
Meet the nextGEN
Name: Judit Giró Benet
Company: The Blue Box Biomedical Solutions
Company Focus: Early Breast Cancer Detection
Founded: 2021
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Stage: Certification Phase
Meet the nextGEN
Name: Benoît Serive
Company: BlueCare discovery
Company Focus: Marine Pharmacognosy
Founded: 2022
Location: Nantes, France
Stage: Preclinical