Filippo Abbondanza Email & Phone Number

Bologna, It

Where AI meets Life Science. Currently in stealth

🚀My role include:★ Led the development of 4 products★ Manage 30 people (software developers, designers, product managers)★ Support sales in tenders and direct procurement★ Develop & maintaining product strategies★ Reported directly to the C-suite

London, United Kingdom

Lifebit developed CloudOS, a cloud orchestration platform which streamlines genomics analyses, making it easy to automate and scale-up analyses directly on cloud/HPC hybrid solutions. Orchestration through CloudOS ensures analyses are standardised, reproducible, versioned and shareable while removing inefficiencies and minimising costs.Moving from sales, to tender writing to product management

Global Biotech Revolutions is company organising GapSummit. GapSummit is a world-class, intergenerational biotech summit for current and future leaders in the global biotech community, where 100 highly selected 'Leaders of Tomorrow' connect the current leaders in both industry and academia. Leaders of Tomorrow will have an unparalleled. GapSummit provides a remarkable opportunity to network with world-experts in biotech, discuss key 'gaps' within the biotech sector, and tackle some of these challenges through the Voices of Tomorrow start-up competition.

GapSummit is a 5-days summit and biotech competition held every year either at the Broad Institute (US) or at Cambridge (UK) (https://gapsummit.com). The 2019 edition was organised at the Broad Institute in June.A total of 100 'leaders of tomorrow' (students or young professionals) are selected over 1,000+ worldwide applications and are exposed to keynote speakers from Academia - including Nobel Laureate Professor Philip Sharp and Professor George Chruch - as well as leaders of the pharmaceutical, genomics, Agtech and biotech industries. Some of the speakers of the edition included the CSO for Vertex Pharmaceutical, the CEO of Alnyla, the CSO of Sanofi and CDO of Novartis.GapSummit also includes a team pitch competition which spans five months. My team worked on LinkOmics, a platform which leverages on AI to improve the recruitment process and design of genomic-led clinical trials. The team reached the final session and I pitched the project

A non-profit association which seeks to connect biotech PhD with industries and with their peers in Europe. The association organises and promotes workshop, career fairs and networking events in collaboration with our local national partner which are part of YEBN (Young European Biotech Network)I am an executive board member and responsible for the communication and marketing strategies

Londra, Regno Unito

Consultant Assistant. Responsible for:-Market Landscaping-Consulting-Asset Discovery-Company Scouting-Social Media

Edinburgh, Regno Unito

Working on producing genetically-encoded ratiometric pH reporters anchored on the surface of E. coli to use as pH sensors in gut organoids and study the pH difference between the lumen and the crypts. The design of the project is modular and several pH reporters with different anchors are tested.Skills gained: time-management (as I'm the only person working on it), molecular biology techniques, protein expression, primer and genetic design

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

iGEM is the most important international genetic engineering challenge where more than 300 student-led projects compete to solve global issues. I'm part of the over-graduate team of the University of Edinburgh.The team developed PhagEd (available at http://2017.igem.org/Team:Edinburgh_OG). PhagEd is a modular molecular toolkit which uses dual bacteriophages systems to deliver different CRISPR cassettes to re-sensitise antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The toolkit is based on 4 bacteriophages (namely lambda, P1, T4, T7) and three CRISPR cassettes (SpCas9, SaCas9, FnCpf1). I have designed and constructed the SaCas9 part which can be found here: http://parts.igem.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K2330000In the project, I managed the team, designed the overall project and found sponsors, including Eppendorf, IDT and Edinburgh Genomics. At the Jamboree, the showdown event held in November in Boston, we won the Best Therapeutic project among the entire iGEM community, composed of more than 300 teams.Skills gained: Project management, Sponsor-hunting, Leadership, Genetic design, Primer design, CRISPR experience, Molecular biology techniques, Bacteriophage growth and selection, Bacteriophage infection.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Tübingen Area, Germany

Internship in Detlef Weigel's laboratory. Personal project on studying the gene expression levels (RNA-seq) of 11 strains of Arabidopsis thaliana from climatically different regions. Experience gained: growing and maintaining A. thaliana in soil and medium, RNA-seq, sequencing, basic R programming.

Zürich Area, Svizzera

-One of 20 students (out of >700 applicants) selected to participate in the International Biology Undergraduate Summer School (BUSS), a 9-week summer research program affiliated with the ETH Zurich and University of Zurich.Personal project at Dr. Michael Hengartner's laboratory: in vivo characterisation of the RNA-binding protein MINA-1, involved in apoptosis in Caenorhabditis .elegans. The protein was previously tested in vitro concluding that the protein negatively regulates apoptosis. I've obtained transgenic lines of C. elegans by microinjection (MosSCI technique) and gene bombardment. The lines carried separately the wild-type and knock-out MINA-1 gene (previously obtained from site-directed mutagenesis). The offspring were collected and the apoptotic bodies were counted.Skills gained: growing and maintaining C.elegans cultures, Golden Gate assembly, site-directed mutagenesis, gene bombardment, MoscSCI technique, apoptotic corpses counting, molecular biology techniques (PCR, miniprep, midiprep, gel electrophoresis, cloning, ...).I produced my Bachelor dissertation on this project.

Bologna Area, Italy

Panini shop in a highly-touristic area of Bologna. Manager assistant (Jan-Feb) and Manager (Mar-Jun).

Bologna Area, Italy

Catering enterprise. Specialised in inauguration events for enterprises. Experience in organising both small size (10 people) and large size (500 people) events.

Bologna Area, Italy

Part-time secretary in a large office at the School of Biotechnology at University of Bologna.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Human/Medical Genetics

List of publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LBmtXywAAAAJ&hl=en Main focus: GWAS, fine-mapping, post-GWAS analysis.

Master Of Science - Ms Synthetic Biology And Biotechnology, Distinction

Relevant courses: Principles of industrial biotechnology, Tools for synthetic biology, Practical system biology, Gene expression.

Bachelor'S Degree, Biotechnology, 110 Cum Laudae (1St Equivalent )

Activities and Societies: Relevant courses: Organic and Inorganic Chemistry, Biochemistry, Bioanalytical Chemistry, Statistic, Botany.

High School, Scientific Course With Specialisation In Math, Physics, Informatics And Science, 81/100