33: Clean Meat Tissue Engineering Biotech Startup Biomimetic Solutions Founders Alana and Ana Discuss their Technology, Journey, and Their Move From Brazil to the UK

May 29, 2018

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Tissue engineering, applications, a biotech startup, their startup journey, and why they moved to the UK from Brazil are the big talking points of this episode.

About Biomimetic Solutions:

“Biomimetic Solutions is an innovative tissue engineering company based in United Kingdom that produces a new generation of biomaterials for tissue engineering applications.” Source “Our products are a result of high level professionals working in a rigorous property quality control and constant investment in research and development.” Source

Major Awards:

“Biomimetic Solutions was the winner of Startup Games 2017- Belo Horizonte Edition and broke the Mondial record of virtual funds raised of all editions.Startup games is a global business competition promoted by the British Consulate and this year the competition was attended by 73 startups from all over the world. The competition already passed by Sidney, London, Singapore and Santiago.” Source

About CEO Alana Santos Benz:

“Materials Engineer by CEFET-MG (Federal Centre of Technology of Minas Gerais- Brazil).

Founder and CEO of Biomimetic Solutions, a tissue engineering company based in UK that develops high quality materials for tissue engineering field. Integrating biomaterials science, natural extracts and patented methods, Biomimetic generates affordable and optimised materials for 3D cell culture.” Source

About CTO Ana Elisa Antunes dos Santos:

“Founder and biotechnology entrepreneur. Graduate in Materials Engineering by CEFET-MG (Federal Centre of Technology of Minas Gerais).

CTO of Biomimetic Solutions, a biotechnology stratup that operates in the segment of Tissue Engineering developing technologys for in vitro tests of Cellular Agriculture field, Cosmetic Industry and Regenerative Medicine.”  Source

Hyperlinked Timestamped Show Notes:

  1. [ 01:15 ] What their greatest strengths are and what helps them be successful in their biotech startup journey.
  2. [ 02:45 ] What their backgrounds are in and what they are specializing in.
  3. [ 03:27 ] What things made them gravitate towards hard sciences over anything else.
  4. [ 04:51 ] The biggest struggles they have gone through (i.e. merging University and startup worlds).
  5. [ 08:29 ] How they describe their technology and why it’s important for the clean meat (cellular agriculture) fields.
  6. [ 09:45 ] How they would explain their technology of growing clean meat to a laymen.
  7. [ 11:47 ] What they think is unique about clean meat and their technology.
  8. [ 13:42 ] How their technology could be used to form a heart and other tissues.
  9. [ 14:36 ] What seeing the first results were like, and how long it took to get great results.
  10. [ 16:25 ] How they celebrate by planning next moves, and what it was like to move to the UK.
  11. [ 19:01 ] Who their mentors are, and how their mentors have helped them.
  12. [ 22:08 ] Some of the things that they think early stage biotech startups need to focus on.
  13. [ 23:55 ] How they formed the team and found each other (i.e. a special Brazil program).
  14. [ 25:48 ] Why the team reached out to Alana to become the CEO and founder.
  15. [ 27:05 ] How they level up their skills.
  16. [ 28:30 ] The person that inspires Ana.
  17. [ 29:10 ] Book recommendations and clean meat resources.
  18. [ 30:20 ] Their advice for people who are starting out.
  19. [ 33:10 ] The best ways to follow along and contact them!

 

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