Strategies for Successful Technology Translations

Event Details

Welcome to our event "Strategies for Successful Technology Translations" taking place on July 4th, 2024. This event is organised by Singapore National Biofilm Consortium (SNBC) in partnership with SINERGY (Singapore Consortium for Synthetic Biology) and Biotech Connection Singapore.

Join us and learn the best practices and techniques for successful technology translation. Our event is perfect for anyone looking to enhance translation of microbial technologies and stay up-to-date with the latest trends in the biotech industry. The event is especially curated for spin-offs, start-ups and for anyone with tech offers and tech needs in this area.

Get ready for an insightful and informative event that will share more on the tips and tricks for translation of technology. See you there!

Agenda

July 4, 2024

Main Schedule

15:00 - 15:30

Registration

15:30 - 15:45

Introductions of techconsortia (SNBC & Sinergy) & Biotech Connection Singapore

15:45 - 16:00

Introduction to Technology Translation and Venture Building

Speaker & Panel Moderator Mr Michel Birnbaum

16:00 - 17:15

Panel Discussion

Dr Tarun Chopra

Dr Jung Joon Lee

Dr Akbar Vahidi

Speaker & Panel Moderator Mr Michel Birnbaum

17:15 - 18:00

Networking Reception

Panel Members

Dr Tarun Chopra

Director, Advanced research Singapore, L'Oréal R&I; Joint Director, L’Oréal-SCELSE joint laboratory

Dr Jung Joon Lee

Ex-Head of Platform Development, ToolGen; Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS

Dr Akbar Vahidi

CTO & Co-Founder at Allozymes

Speaker & Panel Moderator Mr Michel Birnbaum

Director, Entrepreneurship and Research Translation, SCELSE ; Co-founder & CEO of Mindsigns Health™ Inc

Panel Member

Tarun Chopra joined L’Oréal in 2013 and is leading the research and innovation team for L’Oréal in Singapore. He is adept at identifying areas of disruptive innovation, and at creating collaborations with academics and start ups He is highly experienced in leading product oriented research.

EXPERTISE:
Tarun has multi disciplinary expertise across multiple scientific disciplines including chemical biology, biotechnology, and microbiology. Prior to joining L’Oréal, Tarun spent 5 years in Switzerland as a post doctoral researcher at EPFL, Switzerland working towards understanding mechanisms of metabolic regulation in bacteria Prior to the EPFL, Tarun earned a Ph.D. in Chemical Biology from the National Institute of Immunology in India and also a M.Sc. in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, India

EXPERIENCE:
He is currently leading research strategies and programs for R&I Singapore, particularly in the field of microbiome, longevity, agritech, and foresight functions. He is also the co-director of L'Oréal's joint laboratories with academic partners including SCELSE in NTU, NERI in NUS, and ASRL in A*STAR. Along these lines, he is spearheading knowledge and transformation initiatives with both internal and external stakeholders across the globe.

ACHIEVEMENT AND INFLUENCE WITHIN THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY
Tarun has 3 patents to his credit and actively contributes to scientific community through publications and presentations.

Dr. Jungjoon K. Lee received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Stanford University in 2011 under the theme of Directed Evolution, and BA/MSci degrees in Natural Science (Chemistry) from the University of Cambridge in 2005. After his Ph.D, he worked in the Future Biotherapeutics department of Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology for three years and as a research scientist at the Seoul National University's Institute of Molecular Biology & Genetics for two years conducting research in CRISPR-Cas9. After which, he joined Toolgen, a biotech company focused on CRISPR-Cas technology in 2016 where he worked in the Platform development team and published a number of papers and patents related to the CRISPR platform. His representative achievements include the development of several groundbreaking tools, such as the first Genome-wide off-target detection method for Prime Editor TAPE-seq (Nature Communications 2022), the standardized Genome-wide off-target detection method Extru-seq (Genome Biology 2023), and the high-fidelity Cas9 with high activity, Sniper2L (Nature Chemical Biology 2023). He is currently an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore.

Speaker & Panel Moderator

Michel is currently Director of Entrepreneurship and Research Translation at NTU-SCELSE, working on technology commercialization via spinoffs and industry collaborations and partnerships, strategy and corporate development. He was responsible for the development and operations, from 2019-2022, of the Singapore National Biofilm Consortium and creating partnerships in the US, UK and EU.
Michel was a lecturer for the MIT-SMART ACT program where he developed and taught the course “Lab to Market”.
He is co-founder and CEO of Mindsigns Health™ Inc a software brain health platform spun out of NTU. He is also advisor to a number of healthcare spinoffs involved in anti-microbials to microbiomes.
Michel has held board positions with a number of technology and healthcare growth companies internationally, operational advisory roles and has managed technology & healthcare IPOs on both European markets and NASDAQ as well as M&A and investments.
Michel served as Vice Chairman of the Singapore Venture Capital Association (SVCA) and was a member of the Executive Council of BioSingapore. Michel won the Highest Impact VC/PE-Backed Company Non-Executive Board Member award in 2013 from the SVCA
Michel holds a B.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering from the NYU Tandon School of Engineering (PINY) and attended General Electric’s Advanced Engineering program. Michel was a graduate of General Electric’s Edison Program. He earned his MBA from the London Business School.
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Agenda

July 4, 2024

Main Schedule

Panel Members

Dr Tarun Chopra

Dr Jung Joon Lee

Dr Akbar Vahidi

Speaker & Panel Moderator Mr Michel Birnbaum

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