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September 2023 Update:
Please check out our newly released microalgae patent landscape case study!
Alternative Proteins Case Studies
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better business decisions and higher risk-takings
September 2023 Update:
Please check out our newly released microalgae patent landscape case study!
Mycelium and fungi-based proteins
Biobased chemicals, bioethanol and bioplastics
Siew-Loon Ooi, Ph.D.
Founder
I am a biologist with broad academic and industry experience.
I founded Pramoedya Biointelligence LLC to combine my love for problem solving and passion for innovation, with the goal of creating opportunities to help solve global challenges in medicine, health care and environment. Having grown up in Malaysia, I am especially interested in projects that will empower developing nations.
Professional background:
• Founder, Pramoedya Biointelligence LLC
• Technology intelligence program lead (DSM Biotechnology Center, Netherlands)
• Innovation program office manager (DSM Food Specialties, Netherlands)
• Technical lead for metabolic engineering, strain development, enzyme biodiversity, enzyme cocktail optimization, high throughput biochemical assay and screening, diagnostic test development projects on bioenergy, biochemicals, food enzymes and food preservation (DSM, Amyris and Precigen (formerly Intrexon Corporation)
• Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Postdoctoral Scholar (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA), with Dr. Steve Henikoff. My research focused on understanding chromatin-based epigenetics events in the stem cells of the worm C. elegans, as these epigenetic features could serve as therapeutic targets in cancer patients. I also developed a system that is widely used by C. elegans researchers to visualize chromatin activity in living C. elegans.
• Graduate School Training (the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA), with Dr. Jef Boeke. I developed technologies that combined the power of classical yeast (S. cerevisiae) genetics with that of microarrays using molecular-barcoded yeast mutants. These technologies created an entirely new application of microarrays and helped drive the genomics field into the functional genomics era, where a genome is surveyed based on gene function rather than its sequence.