SpliceBio CEO: The Route From US Academic To Spanish Gene Tech Entrepreneur

Startup Co-founder And CEO Explains The Difficult Process Of ‘Rolling Down The Sleeves’ And Allowing Strategic Activity To Take Precedence

From an early stage in his career, Miquel Vila-Perelló saw himself as a research academic. It was an ambition he duly fulfilled. Later, seeing the greater potential to bring benefit to human health by forming his own company, he co-founded SpliceBio, a Spain-based startup focusing on gene therapies for rare diseases.

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