National Institute on Aging Spotlights our CEO’s scientific journey and Juvena Therapeutics mission to unlock the secrets of tissue regeneration
Discovery of Biologic Therapeutics in the AI/ML Era: 20-year industry veteran and Vice President of Data Science, Dr. Edward Moler, PhD, shares his insights on navigating AI-driven discoveries with high therapeutic potential
Check out the Pharma Exec Podcast of CEO Dr. Hanadie Yousef’s interview for the Emerging Pharma Leader award to learn more about what drives her ambitions for Juvena
Endpoints: CEO and co-Founder Dr. Hanadie Yousef is recognized by Endpoints for her lifelong scientific work and discoveries, for her entrepreneurship and business leadership as part of the 2023 “20 under 40” list of exceptional biotech leaders and global change makers
Juvena’s CEO and co-founder, Dr. Hanadie Yousef, was named among a distinguished short list of Emerging Pharma Leaders by Pharmaceutical Executive, which highlights her personal story and what drives Dr. Yousef’s passion for decoding secreted proteins for better human health
As Juvena continues to welcome a tremendously talented team, we wanted to thank FierceBiotech, Endpoints News, STAT, Longevity.Technology, BioWorld, and BioCentury for highlighting Juvena Therapeutics’ expanded leadership team last week. Juvena is thrilled to have Neil Berkley as Chief corporate development officer, Mo Tabrizi PhD, RPh as VP of preclinical and non-clinical development, and Edward Moler, PhD as VP of data science. Juvena is looking forward to what’s ahead!
BioWorld Features Dr. Yousef’s and Dr. O’Connell’s founding story, showcasing Juvena’s proteomics platform to tackle chronic and age-related diseases by mining hESC-secreted proteins
Bek Madjidov
Bek Madjidov is the Head of Finance and Operations at Juvena Therapeutics, responsible for administrative and operational functions (finance, human resources, information technology, and facilities).
Bek is a transformational leader who brings strong business acumen and over 15 years of finance and operations experience in the biotech and high-tech industries. His areas of expertise are strategic planning, business analysis, management reporting, process improvement, and organizational transformation.
Bek previously served as Finance Director at Genentech (Roche), supporting Product Development and Manufacturing Operations organizations. He provided finance leadership to global product and functional teams and led transformational efforts in business and finance organizations. Prior to Genentech, Bek held a variety of finance and leadership roles at Autodesk and Bio-Rad Laboratories by successfully building and leading teams that built strong, cross-functional business partnerships in complex, matrix organizations.
Bek holds a Bachelor of Science (summa cum laude) in Business Administration from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York (SUNY). Bek is pursuing a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Jeff Welch
Jeff Welch has over 30 years of CMC experience in the process development, GMP manufacturing and facilities, and regulatory documentation.
In Jeff’s most recent role as a consultant he has had responsibility for authoring and reviewing regulatory filing sections related to process development and product characterization.
Over the past decade Jeff has focused on his role as a senior director for drug substance (DS) process development and director over process engineering and operations for a specialty pharmaceutical company working in biologics and vaccines and as a CDMO organization.
Jeff has also served as a project manager for large scale manufacturing and technology transfer projects and filled the DS team leader role. After a lead role in engineering and construction, he served as a senior manager over the start up effort for a stainless steel cell culture facility (1600 L scale), where he hired and managed personnel and led a 7-day-a-week cGMP manufacturing operation for the upstream portion.
In his early career he participated in design of a multi-product manufacturing facility and after start-up performed process fit and technology transfer activities for several microbial, yeast and cell culture products.
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