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Ross Youngs
Breakthrough technology to directly obtain the hidden chemistry of microbiomes, +17,000 Followers, #microbiome #smallmolecules #drugdiscovery #platform #AI #ML #Datasets #Discovery
Ross Youngs, CEO & Founder of Biosortia, Inc. - Microbiomics
Ross Youngs is the founder and CEO of Biosortia, the only company practicing Microbiome Mining. With over three decades of experience, Ross has dedicated his career to inventing products, technologies, and processes across various industries, securing over 75 patents globally.123
Some key facts about Ross Youngs:
- He is driven to innovate by a focus on what is better, faster, and less expensive23
- His recent major innovations include an R&D 100 Award for collaboration on biopolymer technologies23
- In 2009, Biosortia was awarded a $6 million ARPA-E (U.S. Dept. of Energy R&D) grant for its algal harvesting technology, which helped lead to the development of Biosortia's drug discovery platform123
- In 1998, he was awarded the Ernst & Young Ohio Entrepreneur of the Year award23
- The U.S. Small Business Administration honored him as their national "Business Person of the Year" in 1998 in a presentation made by Vice President Al Gore23
Biosortia has completed the process of perfecting a technological breakthrough in microbiome mining, with over $11 million in equity funding and over $9 million in non-dilutive funding from ARPA-E, DARPA, USAF-RL, and NIH.4 Multiple peer-reviewed papers were published, with one receiving recognition from the American Chemical Society.4
As a thought leader in drug discovery, Ross Youngs is working to create a vision of directly obtaining the hidden drug-like small molecules of natural microbiomes at an industrial scale.4 He believes that mining accessible microbiomes in quality and quantity is the only way to uncover the critically important small molecule secrets of microbes and microbiomes that is leverageable to all therapeutics and life sciences.4
