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IDBS and the science of getting four weeks back
BioIVT says IDBS helped it deliver research data at least four weeks faster. The company’s bigger bet: better lab records can speed the journey from experiment to manufacturing - and give AI something trustworthy to work with.
Abcam Turned the Antibody Catalog Into a Quality-Control Machine
The Cambridge company began with one postdoc’s bad antibody problem. Twenty-eight years later, its real product is not merely a vial - it is the confidence that a costly experiment will not have to be run twice.
Dirk Soenksen
Dirk Soenksen is the co-founder and CEO of Ceresti Health, a Carlsbad, California digital-health company that treats the family caregiver as the unit of care for people living with dementia. An engineer by training, he first reshaped a corner of medicine by founding Aperio, the company that turned the glass microscope slide into a digital image and became the global leader in digital pathology before Danaher's Leica Biosystems acquired it in 2012. A coffee on his last day at Leica sent him into a second act: instead of imaging the brain, he set out to support the overwhelmed spouses and adult children caring for it.
Ross Wilkie
Ross Wilkie is VP of Global Communications & Public Affairs at Google, based in San Francisco. A biologist-turned-communications-strategist, he spent over 15 years rising through GlaxoSmithKline before serving as Chief Communications Officer at Danaher Corporation. In February 2024, he joined Google to oversee global communications and public affairs for one of the world's most scrutinized technology companies.