Speaker Innovation for Health 2023
Peter de Keizer | Founder & Managing Director, Cleara Biotech
Peter de Keizer, PhD, is the founder of Cleara Biotech, a company aimed at targeting “scarred” types of cancer and senescence. Peter was trained as a molecular biologist at Utrecht University + Harvard Medical School/MGH (2004). He obtained his PhD in 2009 in the field of FOXOs and senescence, knowledge employed as postdoctoral fellow at the Buck Institute in California (2012). He designed the first compound to eliminate senescent cells, which improved the health of aging mice (Cell, 2017; >700 citations). In 2018, he joined the UMC Utrecht (NL), to investigate subtypes of senescence where became
associate professor in 2020.