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.
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.
Introduction
02:56 Tell listeners about yourself
05:53 What made you sort of stop there and say, Hey, look, this is something that we absolutely have to work on?
10:31 In terms of the things that you're working on at Bio Sortia, what, you know, more focused things should we expect that would come out from Bio Sortia?
15:00 If organizations wanted to reach out to you today, are you able to help and, and, scale to meet the demands of people that are looking for or organization?
23:40 Where do you believe that the biggest opportunities lie in life?
36:38 There are three questions that I like to ask every guest.
-What Inspires you?
38:02 -What concerns you?
41:51 -What excites you?
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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.