Barbara Brunnhuber is a multi-disciplinary facilitator with an entrepreneurial spirit progressing life sciences ventures. This ability and drive builds on an education in chemistry and economy, applied and advanced during various jobs at the interface of science and business. With a feel for people and processes Barbara spins-out, manages and grows biotech and medtech startups. Currently she wants to bring a mutation agnostic drug to retinal degeneration patients with Mireca. Barbara is supporting LACDR prof. Hankemeier in improving the health system with metabolomics. Together with her colleagues from BioPartner and unlock_ Barbara is opening doors in the Leiden LSH startup scene.

As technology changes the face of healthcare, Sophia is enthusiastic about her contribution to innovative medical care. In particular, she is interested in the decentralization of diagnostic tests to the point of care. In this way, fast, evidence-based and personalized healthcare can be achieved. To ensure this, Sophia founded ShanX Medtech BV, a startup developing antibiotic efficiency testing devices. Helping doctors make an evidence based and personalized antibiotic treatment choices is an important step to improve patient care.She has a BSc and MSc in Electrical Engineering and she recently finished her PhD in diagnostic devices (Mechanical Engineering).

As a teacher and ambassador, Prescilla aims to make more and more people enthusiastic about the resilience of the human body. She gets very energized by the progress made in biomedical sciences in case our bodies cannot rely on that resilience. Still she wants to sparkle the notion that prevention should be a dominant part of our health care as healthy nutrition, exercise and a healthy living environment can reduce the need for or enhance the effectiveness of pharmaceutical solutions. She believes that translating fundamental science into applied science with multiple disciplines is what will make a difference in the long run. However, that means we do not only need to educate specialists, but also generalists that speak the different disciplinary languages. How difficult it is to get a relatively simple message across in the intended way to different target groups can daily be observed in (social) media.

Chantal Schinkels is the author of the book De IT girl: how to survive a male-dominated workplace in which she writes about the life of women in Dutch tech workplaces. The countless examples and convincing figures in the book show that things have to change. And that it is possible to change it. In addition, she has been helping companies with their e-commerce activities for years. Chantal shares her knowledge by writing blogs, giving training and speaking at events and conferences. Her content is known for a combination of strategy, trends and practical tips that can be applied immediately.