The Making of AYOXXA

Synopsis

AYOXXA is a proteomics company founded as an NUS and SMART startup in Singapore in 2010. This talk will outline the “making of AYOXXA” from an idea, over the first proof-of-concept into an international operation. As most startups, AYOXXA went through several ups and downs in its making. This talk will cover the challenges, pitfalls and strategies to build a proteomics company from scratch.

About the Speaker

Dieter Trau holds an engineering degree (Dipl. Ing. FH) from the Aachen University of Applied Science, 1994 in Chemical and Bioengineering and a PhD degree from the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) 2001 in Chemistry. He worked as a Research Engineer in Germany from 1994 to 1998 and started his entrepreneurial activities with the foundation of the biotechnology companies Xantec in Muenster (1995) and 8sens biognostic in Berlin, Germany (2000). After completion of his PhD he was a Research Fellow (2001), then Assistant Lecturer (2002) and later Assistant Professor (2003) at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. In 2004 he joined the Division of Bioengineering and the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) as an Assistant Professor. At NUS, he founded the life-science companies AYOXXA Pte Ltd in 2010 and Tip Biosystems Pte Ltd in 2014. He is author of >50 international peer reviewed research papers and inventor of 17 patent families resulting in more than 80 patent applications of which 20 are granted and commercialized by different companies.

Venue: Duke-NUS Medical School, Meeting Room 7C, Level 7