Interview with Paulina Kaminska – President of the Association of Young Biotechnologists – new member of YEBN

Paulina, what is AYB?Association of Young Biotechnologists (AYB) is a student organisation created by medical biotechnology students who study at the Medical University of Silesia (Department of Pharmacy with Laboratory Medicine Division). We are a big (68 members) group of young, ambitious people, who want to develop their skills and make friends with people who … Read more

Interview with Mark Petchey, new Treasurer of YEBN

You are now in the YEBN executive board for the first year. As newly elected treasurer, what are your goals and hopes for YEBN in 2019? My overall hope is to expand the visibility of YEBN even more and get more people involved. I will aid this goal by managing the administration of YEBN to … Read more

The YEBN attends Biotech meets Beer event

This month our Communications Officer visited the ‘Biotech meets Beer’ event organised by the NorthWest Initiative at the Cloudwater Brewery in Manchester. The event was completely sold out and the bar area, located at the top level of the brewery, was completely filled with researchers and beer lovers. The event was a combination of talks … Read more

Are you a #BiotechFan?

Do you want to go the European Biotech Week and learn about the newest developments in the field? You could win a free trip to the conference in Brussels by submitting a short video about your research for the #BiotechFan competition. Promote your own ideas or research and exchange with other biotech fans in the … Read more

3D Tissue Printing: how to fix a broken heart

A few weeks ago scientists around Professor T. Dvir from the Tel Aviv University reported their ground-breaking findings in the field of tissue engineering aided by the advances in 3D tissue printing. Professor T. Dvir and his interdisciplinary team from the Tel Aviv University are working in the field of cardiac tissue engineering in order … Read more

Projects corner: CreOrgans, Guido Frigieri interview

We launch our new Projects corner, a place where we make visible scientific projects that comes from academy to becom start ups! This time coinciding with the topic of this newsletter, bioprinting, we interview Guido Frigieri, co-Founder of a start up focused in this field, called CreOrgans. We are not going to spend more time … Read more

EU-Startups Summit

Let’s bit a little of entrepreneurship from the Europe’s hottest startups. Come together to learn from some of the most successful European entrepreneurs of our time! At the 2019 edition of the EU-Startups Summit in Barcelona are expected over 1.200 startup founders, tech folks, corporates, business angels, media people and investors from all across Europe. … Read more