“It’s your job to figure out if it’s a problem you’re solving, or if it’s a problem you’re making up”  Shyam Srinivasan completed his undergraduate studies in medical engineering at VIT University in India and a master’s degree in biomedical computing at the Technical University of Munich. He made the jump from research to  entrepreneurship when heaaa

Narges Sheikhansari: Hello and thank you both for being here today. I’ll start with my first question, please tell us about your team. What are your backgrounds and your founding story?  Pedro Correa de Sampaio [CEO, Neobe Therapeutics]: So, I’ve been working in the tumour microenvironment area for many years, always as an academic. Considering that one ofaaa

Narges Sheikhansari: Thank you so much Dragana for agreeing to this interview. Please tell me about your team. What are your backgrounds and your founding story?  Dragana Savic (CTO): Every year, I coach an innovation team at Merck KGaA, the pharmaceutical company. And, in 2020 I was coaching the bioelectronics team. Bioelectronics is a very exciting field.aaa

In November 2021, Oxyjet became the global winners of the IMAGINE IF! Accelerator 2021 when they pitched at the global finals at our Invest in Innovation conference. Oxyjet is an innovative start-up from Bangladesh that rose to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic by developing low-cost and electricity-free ventilators which would meet to needs of developing countries. Nargesaaa

Narges Sheikhansari: Thanks for accepting our invitation to this interview. It’s great to have you here today. So, the first question is about your team. What are your backgrounds and what is your founding story?  Isaac Johnson: That’s a really great place to start. I think for us, it all started back, in 2019. So, back thenaaa

Have you ever looked at a parent or grandparent getting older and wondered how you could improve their health? If they’re living with a chronic, common condition, chances are many people around the world are asking themselves the same question on a daily basis with their own relatives in mind. Lewis Hornby asked himself thataaa

In 2017, Søren Thomsen of Oxford-based start-up BioMe Oxford was one of the team members of global winners of the IMAGINE IF! competition. This global accelerator provides a platform to translate scientific start-up ideas into reality. How can IMAGINE IF! help creative and passion-driven start-ups to progress and grow? With applications for this year’s competitionaaa