Panel Session
The challenges facing an entrepreneur evolve as their company does, and tackling each new stage may require new thinking and flexibility from a CEO. Join us for a look ahead at what may await you as your company scales, and to hear advice, thoughts, and suggestions for managing transition.
Lydia is the CEO and Co-founder of BoobyBiome, a company leveraging their expertise in breast milk research to provide solutions for improving infant gut health. As a microbiologist, Lydia is passionate about solving problems in healthcare by using biotechnology. Lydia has pursued this interest throughout her career; winning the Best Therapeutic prize at the international synthetic biology competition iGEM (2017), through her PhD research at University College London where she has published, presented and won multiple awards for her research (2017-2022) and by winning the UCL Grand Challenges award to set up the first UK infant microbiome conference at the Institute of Child Health, Great Ormond Street Hospital (2020).
During her time at BoobyBiome, Lydia was an awardee of Innovate UK’s prestigious Women in Innovation 2023 prize and has led her team to win five other awards from the BBBSRC and Innovate UK. Keen to share her expertise, Lydia became a member of the Women in Innovation Community Forum (2025-2026) to advise the UK government on funding female entrepreneurship and is a frequent guest lecturer on university courses run by Birkbeck University, UCL and Imperial.
