The Science Tribe: International Lives and Experiences

With many  having just returned from Bio-Europe in Munich, we’d like to highlight another key meeting that took place in Barcelona in late September, with a focus on the thriving Spanish Life Sciences ecosystem  - BioSpain 2023. We had the opportunity to speak to some really interesting attendees and organisations at the meeting. Have a listen, and perhaps you'll want to check out when it returns in two years’ time, in 2025!

Discussed in this podcast:

• The vibrant and rapidly growing Spanish Life Sciences ecosystem
• Biotech in space
• What computational chemistry could teach us about the potential of AI in drug discovery, and if it can fulfil expectations
• The latest in metallotherapeutics and how they're transforming oncology
• Biotech in British Columbia
•  How a simple, single device could tell you about your biological age (vs chronological age) and how your habits influence that number

 The organisations and the people:

 The UK Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is the UK’s department for economic growth. It supports businesses to invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the country. DBT is a ministerial department, supported by 19 agencies and public bodies. 

 BioPartner UK is the independent, accredited trade organisation that supports UK international trade. It works with conference organisers, in-country agencies and overseas networks to provide the best business opportunities for its members as well as UK companies travelling with outward delegations.

Frontier Space Technologies is a Space Biotech company  breaking down barrier to access microgravity for life science advancements. 

As a multi-disciplinary CRO, Charles River is passionate about its role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Its mission, excellent science and strong sense of purpose guides the company in all that it does, approaching each day with the knowledge that its work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. 

The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) has a team of world-leading experts in structural chemistry data, software and knowledge for materials and life sciences research and development who compile and distribute the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD). 

Trade and Invest B.C. works with international enterprises to help them build strong connections to the resources, skills and businesses that make British Columbia (B.C.) the natural place to work, live and invest. It matches sellers with buyers, investors with opportunities, and companies with talented employees, whether selling products or services to the people of B.C. or working with its local communities to export products worldwide. 

 Bold Therapeutics is one of Canada’s leading biopharmaceutical companies. It is in late-stage clinical development, focused on the development of novel metallotherapeutics in the treatment of colorectal and other difficult-to-treat oncology indications.

ETERNA Diagnostics has developed a revolutionary method for monitoring biological age called ACTIVAGE.

“Allow me to state here how much I love Barcelona, an admirable city, a city full of life, intense, a port open to the past and future.” – Le Corbusier

Note that opinions expressed by podcast participants are theirs and not those of The Science Tribe