Meet your Match: Entrepreneurship

Friday, 28 June 2024, 13:45 – 14:30 

Aga Wegrzyn | CEO, Head of Tech & Co-Founder, EV Biotech

Aga Wegrzyn (1988) is the CEO and Head of Technology, and co-founder of EV Biotech B.V. Aga obtained her Bachelor and Masters degrees in Biotechnology at the Jagiellonian University in Poland. Afterwards, she decided to persue a PhD degree and moved to Groningen, where she studied inborn errors of metabolism in the context of computational biology and data integration. At the end of her PhD studies, she co-founded a company, EV Biotech driven by a dream of delivering sustainable products to the market via a sustainable, iterative and integrative R&D process involving both computational and experimental labs. Until October 2022, she also continued her academic career as a postdoc at Metabolomics and Analytics Center at Leiden University, where she was further exploring the methods to integrate the real-world data with computational models to develop predictive tools able to assist in personalized medicine applications. Aga is an alumni of several start-up and scale-up incubators and programmes (CDL, EFL, RISE by Techleap) and a winner of TopX Rising star - ENTREPRENEURSHIP 2022 by TOPX Network and Hyphen Projects.

EV Biotech

EV Biotech specialises in identifying fermentation-based solutions addressing sustainability and regulatory challenges for the production of novel biomaterials or small molecules, through an integrative and iterative process of strain engineering and optimisation involving computational lab and wetlab functions. Founded in 2018 in Groningen, the company has seen a stable growth, serving multiple industrial clients.  

Meet your Match: Entrepreneurship

In this dynamic Meet your Match session, you will explore the exciting world of entrepreneurship in the healthcare industry. You will gain valuable insights into what it takes to start and run a business in this dynamic sector. This session offers a comprehensive look at the responsibilities, work-life balance, salary expectations, flexibility, and career progression associated with entrepreneurial roles. Throughout the session, the diverse tasks and responsibilities entrepreneurs face, from business planning and fundraising to marketing and scaling a business will be discussed. 

The informal setting provides plenty of opportunities for interaction and questions. Participants can engage with experienced entrepreneurs to understand the challenges and rewards of building a business. If you're interested in entrepreneurship or exploring a career in this field, this session is the ideal opportunity to get a realistic view of what it entails and learn how to navigate the journey ahead.