At this year’s S3E Start Open Day, celebrated at the Tivoli BBVA Theatre in Lisbon, we interviewed the participating research teams to find out more about their projects and how they’re planning to implement the knowledge they’ve gained through our program to take their innovation from the lab to the the market.

THYMI is one of the 14 teams that was selected to join the 2024 edition of S3E Start, our program of support for deep tech research and entrepreneurship in Southern Europe, coordinated by our South3E partner HiSeedTech. Watch below the full interview to hear all about their work and their experience on Start!

“As scientists, we lacked a lot of the knowledge required to transition an idea from a research setting into a more entrepreneurial setting, and we knew the S3E Start program would help us with everything we needed to turn our project into a viable business.” — Pedro Ferreirinha

This project is pioneered by researchers Rute Pinto and Pedro Ferreirinha from i3S – Institute for Research and Innovation in Health. They’ve created an innovative solution that offers, for the first time, the possibility to produce in laboratory patient-specific T cells that can be used to supplement patient immunity with no risk of transplanted cell rejection or side-effects.

Want to meet the rest of the teams? Access the full playlist featuring interviews with other participating teams.

If you missed the S3E Start Open Day, you can watch the full livestream recording with all the teams’ pitches or our event recap for the top highlights.


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