2013-2014 academic year

Photo of the founders: Bosco Emparanza, Eduardo Camina, Eric Hernández, Alejandro Siverio (from left to right).

Throughout the academic year 2013/2014 a group of four students from Degree of Biochemistry we were meeting to talk about the functioning of biotech companies in Spain and bioentrepreneurship.

After months of talking we decided it was time to go and meet personally the staff of companies in the Biotech sector in Pamplona. First of all we made a visit to Dr. Ricardo Palacios, director of the development business of business Bionanoplus. At CEIN, he spoke to us about the long process it takes to bring a new drug to market. Secondly, we met with Mr. Ángel Mª Galán, director finance and HR of 3PBiopharmaceuticals. The conversation focused on the costly industrial processes that are necessary to start generating products for the sector, such as recombinant proteins. And finally, we met with a bioentrepreneur, Carlos Gonzalez, partner-director of Ojer Pharma. Carlos talked to us about the importance of being persistent in achieving our goals and, thus, being able to found a biotech company. business

After reaching this point, we realized the usefulness of these conversations for our professional life. Therefore, after talking with different people from the university such as Dr. Ignacio Goñi, Dr. Borja Mora-Figueroa, Dr. Fernando Corrales, D. Pablo Martín, Dña Cristina Martínez and Dña Sara Equiza we decided that it was time to launch a Biotechnology Club and business (CBE) at the University of Navarra.