Endometriosis: Lived experience, Psychology of Chronic Disease, Innovation + Research. Nexus X Barclays
This Endometriosis awareness month join us for a special morning of lived experience stories, advocacy support and what does the future of innovation and research look like?
This will be 2 panels:
Panel 1: Lived experience, psychology of chronic disease and available support
Dr Sula Windgassen. PhD researcher with over 30 published academic papers. An honorary researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience holds five degrees, from King’s College London and the University of Leeds, and is currently conducting research with both King’s and University College London.Chartered Health Psychologist & Mindfulness Practitioner. Author of It’s All In Your Body.
Book waitlist here
Victoria Smart. Listen to her episode on the podcast here, here she shares her journey of working with me to regain her menstrual cycle and improve her relationship with food.
Carla Cressy OBE. Founder & CEO The Endometriosis Foundation
Sonia Masih. VC Relationship Manager at Barclays Investor Coverage Team
Panel 2: Innovation + research surrounding endometriosis
Emilė Radytė, PhD. CEO at Samphire Neuroscience | Neuro at Oxford & Harvard | Forbes 30 under 30 2024
Stasa Stankovic. Co-founder at OvartiX | Reshaping Drug Discovery for Women’s Health | Strategic Advisor to Pharma, Biotech & Investors
Elena Rueda. Co-Founder & CEO @ Dama Health | Bringing precision medicine and personalized care to women's health
Karli Büchling. Founder & CEO. Blake Health. Aka the Period Dealer🩸 Minimising the ~455yr gap in women’s health research
Léa Wenger. CEO and Founder at Cyclana Bio
Hosted by:
Amandine Chaubet-Rochester. Innovation Banking | Empowering Scale Ups to grow and thrive | Championing Innovation through Initiatives like Disruptive by Barclays Eagle Labs | Advocate for Female Founders & DEI
Organized by Nexus in collaboration with Barclays Innovation Hub
We are excited to bring you this meetup!
Who should attend?
Women with endometriosis, adenolysis, fibroids, HMB or suspect they have these conditions
Anyone interested in understanding more about these conditions such as partners, friends, managers
Anyone interested in understanding more about the research, innovatio, AI, tech that's being built in this space, such as investors, clinicians, researchers
Male allies welcome!
How the day will run:
You can arrive and leave anytime you need around your schedule. However please note the capacity is strict due to fire regulation so please arrive as close to the start time as you can to avoid disappointment.
We understand these stories can be difficult to hear so we encourage people to take breaks and leave the main room if needed, rejoining when you are ready.
-8.15am-8.45am: Breakfast + Networking.
-8.45am-9am. Welcome from Ben at Barclays and Leo from Nexus.
-9am-9.55am: Panel talk + Q+A.
5 min break
10.00am-11.15am: Panel 2 + Q+A
11:15am-12pm: Networking
Organizer profiles:
Leo Tyson. Nexus Co-founder
Ben Reasbeck. Head of Healthtech and Life Science at Barclays UK
Cynthia Mensah MSc, FCMI, Empowering startups and scale-ups to thrive by building innovation and collaboration within our ecosystem at Barclays Innovation Hub powered by Eagle Labs
This event will naturally have a health, Healthtech, Medtech focus due to who is in the Nexus community but it's open across sectors.
Everytime we run this event we have a waitlist of around 200 people so we're going to run these slightly differently and accept people in batches based on specificity to the event.
Please ensure your Linkedin profile is linked with your Luma profile to get accepted.
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Email me if you have any questions!
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