Alfredo Quijano Rubio
Location
Seattle (United States)
Description
Under the supervision of David Baker, the father of computational protein design and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024, he worked on the design of proteins that alter their activity according to their environment. Applying this project to cancer therapies led to the founding of his first company, Neoleukin Therapeutics, which focused on reducing the side effects of cancer treatments.
The same principle applied to diagnostics led to the publication in Nature of his study on the development of luminescent biosensors designed to detect biomarkers related to coronavirus, among other pathologies.
After completing his PhD, he continued exploring these lines of research and co-founded Monod Bio, where he is currently the scientific director, together with David Baker and Daniel Silva, also a postdoctoral researcher at the Baker Lab. Several media outlets, including Business Insider and the Puget Sound Business Journal, have showcased his career, which straddles research and entrepreneurship in the field of biotechnology.
Luciana Scrinzi
BSc in Environmental Sciences and predoctoral researcher at the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research from the Spanish National Research Council (IDAEA-CSIC)
Luciana graduated with a BSc degree in Environmental Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires in 2015, and an MSc in Water Sciences (joint degree from IHE Delft, TU Dresden and IST Lisbon) in 2018. She is currently working as a predoctoral ...
Carolina Iacovone
BSc in Physics and predoctoral researcher at the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) and at the Material Physics Center (CFM)
Carolina holds a BSc degree in Physics from the University of Buenos Aires, where she specialised in Material Sciences and developed green materials as eco-friendly alternatives to conventional petrochemical plastics, contributing to the reduction ...
Oliver Binks
BSc in Ecology, PhD from the University of Edinburgh and postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF)
Oliver Binks graduated with an honours degree in Ecology and completed his PhD at the School of GeoSciences of the University of Edinburgh in 2016, on the ecophysiology of tropical rainforests. He then spent five years at the Australian National ...