João S. Ribeiro
Co-founder & CEO @ Braining
PhD Candidate @ MERLN, University of Maastricht
When we can model you and meet you where you are, care becomes earlier, kinder, and far more effective. To me, that’s how we “be the change” in health.
About
João S. Ribeiro is a PhD candidate at MERLN (Maastricht University, Netherlands) developing biofabricated in-vitro cardiac models that age realistically to improve drug testing and reduce animal use. He contributes to FAB4FUTURE, an AI multimodal biofabrication toolbox aimed at scalable, high-fidelity tissues for cardiovascular research and other living-material applications.
His experience in biotech spans iPSC-cardiac differentiation (ICRC St. Anne’s, Brno), senescence/angiogenesis projects, and microfluidic 3D cultures (i3S, Porto), alongside Python-based data analysis.
He is the current CEO & a co-founder of Braining, a medtech company using AI/VR to deliver adaptive, home-ready stroke rehabilitation. Here, he deepens his interest for personalized care, breaching standardized treatment for those in need.
As a speaker, he has been an invited speaker at universities and a prior TEDx event, where he shared his experience in entrepreneurship and science as a whole.