Founder/CEO
https://biosortia.com/leadership-team/
Ross O. Youngs, Founder, and CEO – Ross has spent over 30 years inventing products, technologies, and processes for a variety of industries, and holds over 75 patents worldwide. He is driven to innovate by a focus on what is better, faster, and less expensive. Ross’ recent major innovations include an R&D 100 Award for collaboration on biopolymer technologies. In 2009, Biosortia was awarded a $6 million ARPA-E (U.S. Dept. of Energy R&D) grant for its algal harvesting technology, which helped lead to the development of Biosortia’s drug discovery platform.
In 1998, Ross was awarded the Ernst & Young Ohio Entrepreneur of the Year award. Additionally, the U.S. Small Business Administration honored him as their national “Business Person of the Year" in a presentation made by Vice President Al Gore.
In this episode of Life Science Success my guest is Ross Youngs. Ross is the CEO and Founder of Biosortia Pharmaceutical. They are working to Provide previously unobtainable drug-like small molecules directly from microbiomes.