
SynBioBeta Speaker
Christian Brix Tillegreen
BioInnovation Institute
Dir. of Planetary Health
I am the Director of Planetary Health at BioInnovation Institute, where I lead a dedicated team in developing and executing investment strategies for sustainable startups. I also serve on several boards within our portfolio and advise a few VC fonds. I also serve on the investment committees on several foundations.
Sessions Featuring
Christian Brix
This Year
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Business of Biology
Beyond Geopolitics: Collaboration and Competition in the Global Biology Innovation Landscape
Biology innovation is becoming both more global and more fragmented at the same time. As synthetic biology, AI-driven drug discovery, and biomanufacturing scale worldwide, nations and companies are simultaneously competing for technological leadership while relying on cross-border collaboration to accelerate discovery. Export controls, data governance, regional funding strategies, and national bioeconomy agendas are reshaping how partnerships form, yet science, talent, and innovation networks remain deeply interconnected. This session explores how the global biology ecosystem is evolving beyond traditional geopolitics. Leaders from industry, startups, academia, and investment will examine how collaboration and competition coexist across the US, Europe, China, and emerging innovation hubs.
Featuring

Drew Endy
Stanford University
Hoover Inst Fellow
Synthetic biology pioneer, co-founded iGEM and BioBricks.

Christian Brix Tillegreen
BioInnovation Institute
Dir. of Planetary Health

Oliver Yu
MicroFarmtory
CSO

Zhouyi Wang
Australian National University
Head Investigator, China Biotech

Matías Peire
GRIDX
Founder & CEO

Jim Cooper
Unfinished Ventures
Director
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Business of Biology
Beyond Geopolitics: Collaboration and Competition in the Global Biology Innovation Landscape
Biology innovation is becoming both more global and more fragmented at the same time. As synthetic biology, AI-driven drug discovery, and biomanufacturing scale worldwide, nations and companies are simultaneously competing for technological leadership while relying on cross-border collaboration to accelerate discovery. Export controls, data governance, regional funding strategies, and national bioeconomy agendas are reshaping how partnerships form, yet science, talent, and innovation networks remain deeply interconnected. This session explores how the global biology ecosystem is evolving beyond traditional geopolitics. Leaders from industry, startups, academia, and investment will examine how collaboration and competition coexist across the US, Europe, China, and emerging innovation hubs.
Featuring

Drew Endy
Stanford University
Hoover Inst Fellow
Synthetic biology pioneer, co-founded iGEM and BioBricks.

Christian Brix Tillegreen
BioInnovation Institute
Dir. of Planetary Health

Oliver Yu
MicroFarmtory
CSO

Zhouyi Wang
Australian National University
Head Investigator, China Biotech

Matías Peire
GRIDX
Founder & CEO

Jim Cooper
Unfinished Ventures
Director
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Human Health
From Cells to Patients: Solving the Scale Mismatch in Virtual Biology
Drug discovery often measures biology at the cell level while interventions work at the tissue, organ, or whole-patient scale. This mismatch can make accurate cell-level predictions irrelevant in the clinic. This session dives into strategies to bridge that gap: multiscale modeling that nests single-cell dynamics within organ-level simulations, spatial transcriptomics that preserve context, and surrogate models that translate cell-level outputs into clinical biomarkers. Speakers will ask: how do we ensure virtual biology reflects not just what cells do in isolation, but how biology behaves in the real complexity of patients?
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