
Dan Nomura

Matthew Calabrese

John Castle

Wouter J de Jonge
Prof. dr. Wouter de Jonge, AGAF, received his doctoral training at University of Utrecht, and Columbia University New York, and received his PhD in 2001 (Medicine, University of Amsterdam and Maastricht). He took up postdoctoral positions at the AMC in Amsterdam (prof Guy Boeckxstaens-now in Leuven) and Oxford University (prof Siamon Gordon). He was appointed tenured assistant professor at Amsterdam UMC in 2009 and was appointed full professor in 2013. He currently chairs the gastro-intestinal research group (www.gut-research.com) at the Amsterdam UMC since 2013 and holds a part time professorship at the Dept of Surgery at the University of Bonn, Germany since 2018.
His work focusses on translational gastroenterology and the pathology of IBD. He is interested in gastrointestinal physiology and the function of neural networks within the gastrointestinal tract, in particular in relation to IBS and IBD. His work is funded via national Science Foundation grants (NWO-Vidi-STW), EU FP7, ECCO, and 2 Horizon2020 grants, Helmsley Foundation, Health Holland TKI topsector grants, and various public private partnership grants. He was co-founder of the Microbiome Center Amsterdam in 2016. He holds 5 patents. He served on the board of the scientific committees a.o. Dutch national trust for Gastro Intestinal and Lever Diseases, EU Marie Curie grants, AMC Valorisation Board, and serves as CEO on a spin off company AI-Biomics B.V., a company that develops predictive algorithms for disease biomarkers.

Sophie Durand

Niall Hyland

Michèle Paquier
Michèle has 15+ years of experience in the biotech field, mostly genome engineering, where she has developed IP strategy, managing know-how and large international patents portfolio to support research, commercial and legal activities as a true business partner.
Michèle is heading the IP activity of Eligo Bioscience, a biotech company developing a first-in-class proprietary technology to engineer the microbiome and change the genetic signature of the microbiome with unprecedented precision.
In the past, Michèle worked over 6 years with Cellectis, a pioneering biotech company in genome engineering. She is also a former IP expert of Bpifrance (French Public Investment Bank).
