Sander van Deventer, VectorY & Forbion | Pioneering gene therapy | E11

We’re in Amsterdam with Sander van Deventer, the CEO of VectorY. We will talk about VectorY and what’s missing in gene therapy.

💎 ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Sander has an impressive track record, being a professor, operational biotech founder and a VC. In 1998, he co-founded uniQure, which brought the first gene therapy to the market. He also co-founded the leading VC Forbion as well as Dezima. He is now building a new venture VectorY, again in gene therapy. I interviewed him in 2017 back at Labiotech so it’s great to catch up with him again.

📜 TRANSCRIPT
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⏰ TIMESTAMPS

[00:00:00] Intro
[00:01:54] VectorY: Raising the largest Series A in 2023 in 🇪🇺
[00:05:01] What's coming for ALS
[00:07:50] How Vectorized Antibodies work
[00:17:57] New Vector (AAV) technologies
[00:22:55] The pipeline of VectorY
[00:27:22] Where VC money is moving to
[00:32:29] The Netherlands as a biotech cluster
[00:35:31] CRISPR approval and gene therapy reimbursement
[00:48:15] Where Sander came from
[00:56:14] How to have the energy to be a serial entrepreneur