The Pioneer who may save millions of lives. Gitte Pedersen, Co-Founder Genomic Expression

Описание: Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Gitte Pedersen, the co-founder of Genomic Expression Inc, a company pioneering the development of sequence based cancer diagnostics. This interview was conducted some years ago when ideaXme was just an experiment.

This is an extremely inspiring interview. Gitte is not just a pioneer and business leader, she is a huge champion and supporter of other women on their career journeys. At the time of this interview Genomic Expression, a biotech startup, had launched 4 months earlier bringing a new diagnostic tool OneRNA to the world. This test was "set to change how oncologists prescribe cancer drugs and immunotherapy".

Biography of Gitte Pedersen:

Prior to Genomic Expression, she founded Proximity Venture Advisors, an international business consulting company that serves high tech companies within the Life Science sector. She worked with biotech companies securing licensing deals, reference clients and capital. Her deal resume is north of $1 billion.

Proximity Venture Advisors’ clients were among the largest biotech and pharma corporations to some medium sized and smaller start-up companies, governmental organizations and universities. Since its inception, Proximity Venture Advisors has worked with companies such as GlaxoSmithKline, Amgen, Genentech, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Wyeth, Novo Nordisk, Danida, Takeda, Aeras TB & Vaccine Foundation, Procter & Gamble, Qiagen, SR-One and Phoenix IP Venture, Hadassah University Hospital.

She have been involved in 5 start-up situation, co-founder of 3, and done everything from business plan development to identification investors, negotiation of deal terms.

Previously Gitte worked for Novo Nordisk in a number of management positions within R&D and Marketing. Novo Nordisk is one of the largest Biotech Companies in the world and the market leader within areas such as industrial enzymes and insulin for treatment of diabetes. Gitte Pedersen co-authored 8 patents while working in R&D.

Gitte graduated from the Danish Technological University with top scores in Biochemical Engineering and she holds a bachelor in International Trade. She speaks English, Danish and German fluently.

Specialties: government liaison, mergers and acquisition, venture capital, licensing, drug discovery and development, genomics, medical technology, research & development, business development, Entrepreneurship.