Rikke C. Nielsen
CEO and Founder
15 years experience from pharma and food-supplement sector at Novo Nordisk and Chr-Hansen.
Nils Hijlkema
Head of Outsourcing & Collaborations
15+ years of experience including TenWise, Ernst & Young and Microbiome Business Manager at NIZO.
Marco Ferrato
Finance advisor
Chief Financial Officer of an Italian automotive group of about 1 Billion € turnover and 8.000 employees. Background as an accountant and a tax expert and experience with M&A, finance, IT, and cost reductions.
BAS member and provide financial advisory to start-ups and technology companies.
University collaborators
Prof. Dr. Christophe Lacroix
Laboratory for Food Biotechnology ETH Zurich
+35 years experience with lactic acid, probiotic bacteria and selecting metabolic activities and their utilization to benefit consumer health.
Prof. Dennis Sandris Nielsen
Dept Microbiology & Fermentation, Copenhagen University
15+ years of experience analysing complex microbial communities, with particular focus on fermented food products and the relationship between diet, the gut microbiome and health and disease.
Prof. Morten Arendt Rasmussen
Section for Food Microbiology, Gut Health, and Fermentation, University of Copenhagen
Morten's research focuses on development- and application of data driven mathematical and statistical methods for the modeling of complex biological systems with special emphasis on chemometrics, metabolomics and microbiome within the area of health and nutrition.
Collaboration with BEO on the EIC Pathfinder project Bugs4urate.
Prof. Ditte Hansen, MD
Department of Nephrology, Herlev Hospital, Denmark
Ditte is a medical doctor and Professor at the Department of Nephrology at Herlev Hospital, Denmark and she is the Principal Investigator for the planned BEACON-CKD study.
The Bugs4urate consortium
The Bugs4urate clinical trials are co-funded by EIC Pathfinder.