Malin Stridh, Ph.D.

General Manager/Chief Scientific Officer

With PhD in Neurobiology and metabolism, and rich experience in academic research and biotech industry, Malin is the General manager and leader of the three platforms of MIDA Biotech, stem cell biology, in vivo, and engineering, and their cross-disciplinary projects.

Malin graduated from University of Gothenburg in Sweden with a PhD in Medicine and Neuroscience and she continued on to work as a researcher at Technical university of Kaiserslautern and University of Copenhagen. Her research focused on the communication between different cell types in the brain, with emphasis on energy metabolism and neuron-glia interactions during aging.

Prior to joining MIDA, she worked as regional manager for leading producers of cell analysis and imaging solutions including Sony Biotech and Thermo Fisher Scientific and has substantial experience of the cell therapy field in northern Europe.

Thom van Driel

CFO

Thom works as a Process Management Officer focusing primarily on accountancy and administration. Besides, Thom also supports MIDA Biotech with the general exploitation of the company. Thom obtained his BBA in 2020 from the IVA Driebergen Business School. Upon his graduation, he completed a finance traineeship at Profource after which he worked as a consultant in finance and IT. He supported the municipality of Rotterdam in setting up and ran the financial department of their COVID-19 department. He has recently supported the financial accounting department of APG, the largest Dutch pension investment company.

Sotiroula Chatzimatthaio, Ph.D

Research Scientist

Sotiroula is a biologist whose expertise lies in developmental biology, stem cells and neurobiology. She studied biological sciences at the University of Cyprus, graduated with a master's degree from the University of Birmingham and recently received her PhD in stem cell biology from the University of St Andrews. Her research focused on the study of apoptosis-induced compensatory adult stem cell proliferation, DNA damage response in neurodegenerative diseases and cell sorting during morphogenesis using 4D-live imaging. As a research scientist at MIDA Biotech, Sotiroula organizes experimental workflows and carries out stem cell-based experiments for the development of technologies for autologous stem cell manufacturing and therapies.

Abhishek Harichandan, Ph.D

Senior Scientist

Abhishek holds a PhD in Biology with specialization in cell and molecular biology from Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. He has a cumulative research experience of more than 11 years in stem cell biology in human pluripotent and tissue specific stem cells for disease modeling. In his post-doctoral research, Abhishek worked on identifying tissue specific stem cells in the testis, bone marrow, placenta and prostrate. Prior to joining MIDA, he worked on the development of cell-based therapies against kidney, vascular and peripheral neuron-related diseases and developed 3D organoids for drug screening. He has been trained in GMP manufacturing of ATMP from Biotech Facility Leiden and, as a senior scientist at MIDA Biotech, works on multi-disciplinary projects for the development of stem cell-based technologies and therapeutics.