Thomas Von Erlach

Chief Scientific Officer at Vivtex

Dr. von Erlach co-founded Vivtex and joined as its Chief Scientific Officer when Vivtex was formed as a MIT spin-off in 2018. Prior to that he led the interdisciplinary efforts around gastrointestinal model systems for oral drug delivery applications at the Laboratory of Prof. Robert Langer and Prof. Giovanni Traverso at MIT. Thomas obtained his PhD from Imperial College London in Bioengineering and a BSc and MSc in Biochemistry and Biotechnology from ETH Zurich in Switzerland. His research interest include advanced in vitro models for drug development, oral drug delivery and gastrointestinal pharmacology. His work is published in several high impact journals such as Nature Materials, Nature Biomedical Engineering, and Nature Communications.

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Boston, United States

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Vivtex

Vivtex strives to transform drug development using a new platform technology called gastrointestinal tract organ robotic interface system (GI-ORIS™) that enables robotic screening with fully intact and functional organs.


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