Bakul Gupta
Dr Bakul Gupta is the CEO and Co-founder of ImmTune Therapies, a preclinical stage cell therapy biotech which is developing safe, scalable and affordable in vivo cell therapies. The company is leveraging its unique platform to effectively deliver genetic cargoes directly to targeted cells, and applying it across different indications in cell and gene therapies.
Bakul founded the company in 2019, along with her business partner, Dr George Tetley after a 6-month long research into the challenges faced by current cell and gene therapy companies. She holds a PhD and BSc in Nanotechnology and Chemistry from the UNSW Australia, and finished her postdoctoral training with Prof. Molly Stevens at Imperial College London before starting ImmTune Therapies.
She has over 10 years of experience in designing nano- and bio-materials for a diverse set of biomedical applications and has previous experience in commercialisation of medical devices. She was recently listed as the Top 30 biotech entrepreneurs to watch as part of a report produced by BioBeat.
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Andrea Braun- Scherhag
22nd June Presentations
Mark Kurtz
Leader of ML and engineering teams focused on the design, development, and implementation of cutting-edge technologies and products. With over 12 years of experience in software engineering and machine learning, well-practiced in building and managing teams for both closed source and open source software solutions. Currently the Director of Machine Learning at Neural Magic, Mark is focused on lowering the cost, improving the performance, and increasing the adoption of deep learning technologies through SOTA research and engineering. An active GitHub contributor, blogger, and researcher with published papers in top ML conferences.
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