About Us

👨‍👨‍👦‍👦 Our Team and the need for our technology is supported by partners around the globe.

🚀 Launched in January 2024, MITOGUARDER® is a research-driven innovation project working to bring the benefits of our technology to market.

🌎 Our ongoing pre-spinout operations are based at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

We are a diverse team of scientists and entrepreneurs, dedicated to breaking protein production barriers

🧬 Robust proof of concept in hand, we are solidifying our IPR and in the prototype development phase.

Our Team

Our Story

In 2023, two scientists integrated their different areas of science, joining forces to solve the biotech biologics bottleneck. The MITOGUARDER® innovation project was born. Backed by several funding sources, Our Team is working to bring the benefits of our cell stress management platform to market. Get to know Our Team and Board more here.

Brendan J. Battersby, PhD

Project Co-Lead

Sarah O'Keefe, PhD

Project Co-Lead

Kah Ying Ng, PhD

Senior R&D Scientist

Tania Vane-Tempest, PhD

Principal Scientist

Laura Juhola, MSc (Econ)

Commercial Lead

Our integrative expertise in distinct areas of scientific research and business development is evolutionising modern biotechnology

Our Board

Stephen High, PhD

Professor Emeritus, Biochemistry, University of Manchester (UK)

Richard Zimmermann, PhD

Professor Emeritus, Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saarland University (DE)

Joen Luirink, PhD

Co-Founder, Abera Bioscience (SE) Department Head, Group Leader in Molecular Biology, Vrije University, Amsterdam (NL)

Terence Lewis, FRCS MBE

Chairman, Peninsula Medical Foundation (UK)

We are advised by an esteemed international Board with deep expertise in protein production, spinout company formation and chairmanship

Our Partners & Memberships

Our memberships provide us with an exclusive world of knowledge within the global pharma and biotech sectors (Oxford Global) and local access to Finland's biggest start-up community for health & life sciences entrepreneurship (Terkko Health Hub).

Partners around the world support the need for our innovative stress management platform solution

Our Funders

We gratefully acknowledge Business Finland (Finnish government agency), a private non-profit foundation (The Finnish Cultural Foundation Ester and Uuno Koki Fund) and public funding (University of Helsinki) for supporting our research commercialisation journey.

We have successfully raised funds from 3 sources to support our R&D and commercialisation activities

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