Andreas Laustsen

Center Director & Professor at Technical University of Denmark

Speaker

Professor Andreas Hougaard Laustsen-Kiel (1987) heads the Center for Antibody Technologies at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and is a co-founder of the companies, Biosyntia, VenomAb, Antag Therapeutics, Chromologics, VenomAid Diagnostics, Agrobiomics, Bactolife, and Combotope Therapeutics, which employ 100+ FTEs combined. He holds a PhD from the University of Copenhagen and an M.Sc.Eng. from DTU. He has published 90+ peer reviewed scientific articles, is a co-inventor of 10+ patent families, and has (co-)raised EUR 150+ million for research and entrepreneurship. He is officially recognized as “Denmark’s Coolest Engineer”, member of four scientific academies, and an expert on snakebite antivenoms.