Online TOPX Meetingg

Intrapreneurship & Entrepreneurship

25 May 2022 | 15.00 - 17.30

Intrapreneurship is the acting like an entrepreneur within a company or organization. It is creating a new business within an organization. There are many reasons why intrapreneurship is important. It helps employees grow and develop while keeping them engaged. It challenges employees and gives them the feeling they are meaningful.

Entrepreneurship, on the other hand, is the creation of a completely new business, company, or organization, bearing in mind the financial risks. It is the willingness of starting a new business, and covers everything people do to take their career and dreams into a successful organization.

In this meeting, four speakers, who not only build up their own organization, but also experienced the advantages of intrapreneurship, will highlight this topic.

Speakers

Carmen van Vilsteren

Chair | Topsector Life Sciences & Health

Carmen van Vilsteren is Chair of the Life Sciences & Health Top Sector and Director Health of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). She is the former Chair of the Board of the BeNe CLC of EIT Health . She has been active in both startups and multinationals (Philips) in MedTech and later on as co-founder and CEO of Microsure, a TU/e spinoff in the field of microsurgical robots. She received her degree with honors from Delft University of TechnologyIn her current role as Director Health of TU/e, she combines her knowledge of establishing innovation programmes and public-private partnerships with scientific research.Within this role she is responsible for the Eindhoven MedTech Innovation Center (e/MTIC). e/MTIC is a research collaboration between the Catharina Hospital, the Maxima Medical Center, Kempenhaeghe, TU/e and Philips in the domains cardiovascular, perinatal and sleep medicine. The goal is to create and expand an ecosystem that strongly increases the speed of high-tech health innovation, maximizing value for patients.

Sandra de Vos

Founder & CEO, Vosfox Medical
Sandra de Vos, founder and CEO of Vosfox Medical, studied polymer engineering at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, and has an MBA from Oxford University. Sandra has 20+ years of experience in working with polymers, working for several companies such as Solvay, Dow Chemcial and Forbo Krommenie. She also has 15 years of experience in Medical Devices, starting with the her first company, named Medisse between 2006-2016. Medisse developped a Class III resorbable implant from PTMC polymer and Sandra raised about 4.2 million euros. She worked as a QA consultant while founding Vosfox Medical in 2017.

Nazma Ilahibaks
PhD Candidate | Division Heart and Lung, Cardiology, Experimental Cardiology Laboratory

Nazma Ilahibaks obtained her BSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences at VU University, Amsterdam. In 2019, she graduated cum laude with Honours from the Young Innovators program from her Master's degree in Drug Innovation at Utrecht University.
During her Master's, she developed a biofabrication method to produce cell-derived nanovesicles. She got a PhD offer financed by a public-private partnership grant from the Dutch Heart Foundation. Her doctoral research specializes in the therapeutic development of nanomedicine combined with CRISPR/Cas9 gene therapy to prevent adverse cardiac events in high-risk patients. Her entrepreneurial spirit is driven to improve humanity's quality of life through biomedical innovation. Besides science, she highly enjoys reading, traveling, organizing events, and business development.

Barbara Brunnhuber
CEO, Executive in Residence, Mireca & BioPartner

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.

Programme
TOPX Online Event | Entrepeneurship Intrapreneurship | 25 May | 15.00 – 17.30
15:15 – 15:25 Opening by Haifen Hu (Hyphen Projects) with moderator Nazma Ilahibaks (PhD Candiate and TOPX Young Ambassador)
15:25 – 15:45 Interview - Sandra de Vos (Vosfox Medical)
15:45 – 16:05 Presentation - Barbara Brunnhuber (Mireca & BioPartner)
16:05 – 16:25 Interview - Carmen van Vilsteren Chair | Topsector Life Sciences & Health )
16:25 – 16:45 Interactive break-outs with all speakers and attendees
16:45 – 17:00 Round table discussion with all speakers
17:00 – 17:30 Network carrousel

Practical info & registration

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