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…
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…
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…
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…
Come and learn the steps you need to follow to become a startupper in the life sciences sector. An activity from the ASBTEC and YEBN joint Do you feel the need to incorporate some business knowledge in your life sciences career? This event will focus on the steps required to go from an idea to…
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…
This month we interview our Communication Officer. As for the other Executive Board members we ask Amina about her motivations and vision for YEBN and hope to get to know her a bit better by asking about her personal experiences from her career so far. Amina Frese started in the YEBN the past December 2018…
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…
This month we interview our Secretary. As always we ask him about his feelings in the YEBN, his professional career and we also are going to discover a little more Guillaume at personal level. Guillaume Beaumont started in the YEBN the past December 2018 occuping the position of Secretary. He is studying Bioinformatics Engineering and…
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.…
Welcome back! Our Round Table took place in Frankfurt the 9th of September. Organisations from all over Europe joined to share experiences and to build together the future of the European biotech. It was a great opportunity to refresh our minds and re-think the values and ideas we want to develop! Follow the work of…