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Tess Korthout | Early innovation Partner | Johnson & Johnson

Tess is part of the Johnson & Johnson Innovation team as an External Innovation Scout for the Benelux region. Within this role she focuses on the sourcing, screening and evaluating opportunities and potential matches between internal and external research needs of high strategic value to Johnson & Johnson.

Tess pursued her PhD at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam to study epigenetic processes in cancer progression. This research exposed her to the latest genomic technologies, which led her to a Postdoc at the Hubrecht institute working on a technology to detect epigenetic signatures in single cells. After this, she extended her network in the biotech industry with her previous role as a Business Development Director at the oncology startup iClusion.

About Johnson & Johnson innovation

At Johnson & Johnson Innovation, our mission is to catalyze the best life science innovation, wherever it originates. We connect entrepreneurs, scientists and emerging companies to our resources and expertise, so that together we can transform great ideas into life-changing solutions for people around the world. From customized deal structures and transactions to company creation, incubation, funding and other start-up services, meet our passionate team of science and technology experts to learn how to partner with us. You can connect with Johnson & Johnson Innovation to:

• accelerate collaborations with early-stage innovation in the Benelux
• incubate startup companies either on-site or virtually
• provide strategic corporate VC equity investment and seed funding through JJDC Inc.