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Dr. Jun Axup
Guest Speaker
Digital Biology, Medicine
Areas of Expertise
GGC-Food • Entrepreneurship • Digital Biology • Medicine • Biotech
About Jun
Jun Axup is Scientific Director and Partner at IndieBio, the world’s leading life science accelerator. Focused on turning scientists into entrepreneurs, IndieBio has funded and helped build 94 biotech companies spanning all applications including future of food/agriculture, consumer biotech, computational biology, digital health, therapeutics, medical devices, neurotech, and regenerative medicine. At IndieBio, she advises companies, runs scientific programming, makes investment decisions, and builds community.
Jun holds a PhD in chemical biology from The Scripps Research Institute. She worked in several startups in the fields of immuno-oncology, protein engineering, lab automation robotics, CRISPR, precision medicine, and have co-founded two companies. She is passionate about increasing human healthspan and longevity.
Hosting IndieBio Demo Day 2016
DEFCON Biohacking Conf 2017
Interview on topic of biotech revolution, 2018
Publications
- Synthesis of Site-specific Antibody-Drug Conjugates using Unnatural Amino Acids
- Multiformat T-Cell-Engaging Bispecific Antibodies Targeting Human Breast Cancers
- Protein conjugation with genetically encoded unnatural amino acids
- Contributing Author: Bispecific small molecule-antibody conjugate targeting prostate cancer
- Contributing Author: Antibody microarrays utilizing site-specific antibody-oligonucleotide conjugates
- Contributing Author: Fc-Small Molecule Antibody Mimetics
- Synthesis of Bispecific Antibodies using Genetically Encoded Unnatural Amino Acids
- Contributing Author: Recruiting Cytotoxic T Cells to Folate-Receptor-Positive Cancer Cells
- Contributing Author: Self-Assembled Antibody Multimers through Peptide Nucleic Acid Conjugation
- Contributing Author: Influence of Histidine Tag Attachment on Picosecond Protein Dynamics
- Contributing Author: An enhanced system for unnatural amino acid incorporation in E. coli
- Contributing Author: SMI-Ribosome inactivating protein conjugates selectively inhibit tumor cell growth
- Contributing Author: 2D IR Spectroscopy of Protein Dynamics Using Two Vibrational Labels - a Site-Specific Genetically Encoded Unnatural Amino Acid and an Active Site Ligand