Commercializing Personalized Medicine with Laura Towart, Founder & CEO at Vivan Therapeutics

Other Side Of The Business Card

Welcome to “Other Side Of The Business Card” with your host, corporate transformation entrepreneur and strategic consultant Haig Armaghanian. Having worked as the trusted advisor to some of the world's biggest businesses, Haig's mission with this show is to give you access to the mindset and thought processes from some of the world’s top leaders to discover what drives these innovative individuals.

This week on Other Side of The Business Card, Haig is joined by Laura Towart, Founder & CEO at Vivan Therapeutics. When she was younger, she was always interested in medicine and she thought she would be a doctor. She started working at Harvard in a microbiology laboratory and fell in love with research science and then she applied to get her PhD at Cornell where it started her trajectory towards entrepreneurship.

Laura tells us all about her career in science and the mind-blowing technique used at Vivan Therapeutics to achieve patient discovery and personalised medicine.

She shares her journey into entrepreneurship, how she made difficult decisions to grow into creating her second company and the fascinating process of how Vivan Therapeutics use fruit flies to create a personal approach to treatment for cancer patients.

In this episode you will learn:

• Trajectory into Entrepreneurship
• The process of using fruit flies for a personal approach to treatment for cancer patients.
• Her advice to those looking to start their own business
• The importance of being around the right people
• Her support and passion for mentoring young, female scientists
• What's next on the cards for Vivan Therapeutics and Laura's goals moving forward.
• Laura's search for the right investors

As you will hear on this show, Other Side Of The Business Card is a look behind the scenes of how high achievers create and run multi-million-pound companies, what strategies they use to scale businesses and what knowledge and insights allow them to create successes, across all areas of their lives, not just in the boardroom.

Having worked across 40+ countries Haig’s philosophy is to build passionate partnerships, so expect a deeper level of conversation than you might normally hear from titans of industry, as he uncovers what makes top performers great.

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Find out more about Vivan Therapeutics at https://vivantx.com/

For patients & physicians you can learn more here: https://vivantx.com/patient/

For biopharma you can learn more here: https://vivantx.com/biopharma/