Day 3 of #IPNC2023 kicking off with a panel digging into the Boston Biotech community. ECR’s like me can really benefit from learning about STEM journeys (both people & ideas) as well as company roles in field, so thanks to the organisers for setting this up! 23rd International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference

“We do have a lot of collaboration… You want to tap into the academic community, who, you know, are experts in that one area.” - Munir Mosaheb, Senior Director, Head of Translational Biology, Senda Biosciences #ipnc2023 #fromlabtoproduct

“The genesis of that company was a class project.” - Kathryn Kosuda, PhD, Co-Founder, Chief Scientific Officer, Vaxess Technologies #ipnc2023 #academiatoindustry #fromlabtoproduct

“Big Pharma is a business, you know. The science may be tremendous but the business is key.” - John P. Mueller, PhD, Chief Development Officer, Executive Product Lead, Entasis Therapeutics #ipnc2023 #academiatoindustry #fromlabtoproduct

“The tension between platform and product is a driving force for smaller companies…” - Kathryn Kosuda, PhD, Co-Founder, Chief Scientific Officer, Vaxess Technologies #IPNC2023 #academiatoindustry #fromlabtoproduct

Please welcome our panelists for the second portion of our talks today! #IPNC2023 Also, shout out to our wonderful moderators: William Shaw, Vice Provost for Innovation, & Katie Stebbins, Executive Director, Food & Nutrition Innovation Institute, both from Tufts University

“I love… taking something raw, seeing if it has potential, and passing it off to somebody who has more expertise” - Kate Nudel, Associate Director & Head of Applied Biology, Manifold Bio #IPNC2023 #academicindustrycollab #industry

“...you need to be able to pivot, and wear a new hat. And you don’t know when it’s going to happen, which is exciting.” - Heather MacLeod, PhD, Director of In Vivo Target Discovery, Editas Medicine #ipnc2023 #academicindustrycollab #industry

“One of the biggest changes has been the growth of biotech…” - Gerald Pier, PhD, Professor of Medicine/Senior Investigator, Harvard Medical School & Brigham and Women's Hospital

“I started the first fMRI program that doctors and surgeons can actually use. So I was really excited about what I could bring to the real world.” - Yi-Fen Yen, PhD, Director of Hyperpolarized Imaging, MGH Martinos Center, Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School #IPNC2023

“If you get the funding, you’re the boss. You get to make the decisions, and you get to work with a tremendous group of individuals.” - Gerald Pier, PhD, Harvard Medical School & Brigham and Women's Hospital #ipn2023 #academia

“I think it’s good to have multiple mentors for different aspects of your career, and your career/family life.” - Kate Nudel, Associate Director & Head of Applied Biology, Manifold Bio #ipnc2023 #industry #academicindustrycollab

Many congratulations Amanda Rossiter-Pearson Samantha McKeand!! Fascinating work on inhibitory antibodies elicited by the expert immune dodger, N. gonorrhoeae.. Worth reading or go chat with Samantha McKeand at her poster 23rd International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference!! ⚾️👍

We hope everybody had a great afternoon off exploring Boston yesterday! 😄 This morning, we are so excited to welcome our Keynote Speaker, Dr. Marie-Pierre Preziosi, MD, PhD, from the World Health Organization (WHO), presenting: "On the Cusp of a World Without Epidemic Meningitis #ipnc2023 #epidemics

"When you have a group of partners that are very committed, you get where you want to go." - Marie-Pierre Preziosi, MD, PhD, discussing international collaboration on the Meningitis Vaccine Project (World Health Organization (WHO) PATH) #ipnc2023

Thank you to Sanofi for sponsoring today's lunchtime symposium: "Meningococcal Disease, Forgotten But Not Gone" with guests Dr. Tina Tan, Dr. Steve Pelton & Dr. Katherine Garza. And thank you to Sanofi for helping to make our conference possible! 🦠😄🔬 #ipnc2023 #sanofi

After an amazing afternoon of the latest in genomics, our scientists are happy to take a little break in our absolute best State Room #ipnc2023 #boston #bestview

23rd International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference what a great celebration of the meeting at the State Room last night. Great food and fantastic band #beaconstreet.

"Libraries remain crucial, but libraries are not passive things. They are active things. They need librarians, they need curators, they need people to love the books," - Martin C.J. Maiden, PhD, FRCPath, FMedSci, University of Oxford, providing a Key Note on "25 years of MLST" #IPNC2023

We're so glad to see our attendees made the most out of their time here in Boston! ⚾️ And we totally agree, there's nothing like a conference fully in person once again. Here's to many more!!! 😁🦠🔬 #ipnc2023 #conference