Interviews

New Jersey’s signature programme is the Net Operating Loss (NOL) program, which allows companies to turn losses into cash — a lifeline for early-stage life science firms.

Serge Saxonov

Co-Founder & CEO

10x Genomics

Fundamentally, if you are not analysing tissues at single-cell resolution and, for tissues, with spatial context, you are throwing away most of the biological signal.

Joe Bolen, Ph.D.

Orna Therapeutics

Specifically, after a single dose, or maybe two, we want to ablate B cell populations in autoimmune patients, allow a naïve population to grow back, and therefore reset the immune system and have a very positive outcome on the course of autoimmunity.

Michael Costello

GNC (General Nutrition Centers)

Co-Founder, President & CEO

We are science-led, not trend-led.

Carl Hansen

AbCellera

If it plays out as we hope, though there is still risk, we’ll have what I think is a clear shot to a potential blockbuster therapy for women who choose not to use hormone therapy, or cannot use it due to contraindications, with a more convenient dosing, a better safety profile, and potentially better efficacy.

Lars Petersen

President & CEO

FUJIFILM Biotechnologies

With kojoX, we’ve built a system that allows us to switch production between markets and scales faster than anyone before, ensuring continuity and access for patients worldwide.

Clare Doyle

Verdesian Life Sciences

Farmers only have one shot per year. You can show data, but if you go to a farmer in Iowa with results generated next door in Nebraska, they don’t necessarily want to see it — they want local data. They want to see it on their crop, their soil type, their environment. That hesitancy slows adoption.

Lodovico Bussolati

SDF Group

It’s rare to find such a complete sector: from pure production—starting with a piece of iron for a gearbox—all the way to marketing the final product, with a real end customer behind it

Ann O'Hara

President

Huhtamaki North America

The Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC)

Packaging’s carbon footprint is a lot lower than the materials it protects — if you are delivering a cutlet of chicken, that chicken’s carbon footprint is enormously higher than the packaging around it to keep it fresh through to the consumer and its eventual use. To lower the carbon footprint of the whole consumer goods supply chain, the number one lever is to reduce food and product waste.

Robert Sheasby

Chief Executive