Dr.ir. Jan Schrooten is co-founder and CEO of Antleron, a young R&D company on a mission to enable personalized manufacturing 4.0 in the domain of advanced therapies. The core concept of Antleron’s collaborative innovation is integrating 3D printing, bioreactor-based cell-production processes and digital process control & optimization into factories-of-the-future for cell & gene therapy, vaccine and tissue manufacturing. Previously Jan Schrooten was senior research manager at KU Leuven (Belgium), responsible for the long-term management and technology transfer of biomaterials and tissue engineering research. Trained as a materials engineer, with an engineering PhD in biomaterials and a postgraduate in business administration, he has 25+ years of research experience in biomaterials and tissue engineering.