April 2020

Jason Ryder is a bioprocess engineer, entrepreneur, and educator with experience in process and product development, engineering design, scale up, and commercialization in the industrial biotech and food tech sectors. His professional work has ranged from small molecules to proteins with applications spanning sustainable chemicals, fuels, materials, and foods.

Jason is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Oobli, a food technology company building a new category of food and beverages based on naturally sweet plant proteins. Prior to Oobli, Jason spent time in senior...Read more

During his career at Corteva Agriscience, Rob has spent significant time on both the Crop Protection and Seeds/Traits platforms.  Currently, Rob leads an interdisciplinary herbicide discovery team within crop protection focused on identifying and developing novel technologies for farmers to combat current and emerging weed resistance.  Additionally, Rob has recently taken on co-leadership of Corteva’s Natural products platform where the team is applying novel approaches to regularize Natural products discovery and optimization.  Rob obtained a Ph.D. from Penn State...Read more

Vincenzo Cerullo, Vince, is professor of Biological Drug Development, Faculty of Pharmacy, Head of Drug Research Program, HiLIFE fellow, Translational Immunology Programme, University of Helsinki.

Vince got his PhD at Centre for genetic Engineering (CENIGE) at University of Naples, Federico II in 2004, then he moved to Houston Texas (USA) for a postdoc at Baylor College of Medicine. In 2009 he moved to University of Helsinki where he worked as senior researcher until 2012 when he was awarded the tenure-track professorship and started the ImmunoViroTherapy Lab. In these years...Read more