Dr Isabel Van De Keere, PhD

At Get Soaked Studio, we specialise in empowering purpose-driven organisations within the healthcare and life sciences sectors to navigate their most pressing innovation, validation and go-to-market challenges, with a particular focus on healthcare technology, digital health and medical device innovations. Our mission is to support your success through a multi-faceted approach that encompasses strategic advice and hands-on guidance tailored specifically for your needs. We transform challenges into opportunities, driving meaningful innovation in healthcare and life sciences. Together, we elevate your impact and achieve sustainable success, reimagining current practices to meet the demands of a dynamic landscape and creating a healthier future for all. Our comprehensive advisory services empower startups, corporates, public bodies and related healthcare organisations, academics and non-profits to translate groundbreaking research into real-world innovations. We provide tailored guidance in areas like go-to-market and commercialisation strategies, research and development approaches, strategic partnership development, technology transfer, and innovation funding, ensuring your work makes a lasting, tangible impact. A bit about me: I am a purpose-driven innovator, healthcare technology entrepreneur and business executive committed to improving societal outcomes. Throughout my career, I have led innovation and venture building projects within startups, academia, industry, nonprofits and governments, in both developed and low-income countries. I have advised a wide range of stakeholders on innovation, product, commercialisation, market and R&D strategy, and innovative product development and help them address key issues in their organisations. Please visit our website: https://getsoakedstudio.com/ to get further insights into our services and drop me a line if you want to learn more.

As Expert in Residence at the Imperial Enterprise Lab, I offer expert advice and guidance to Imperial College founders and affiliated Enterprise Lab ventures in the healthcare and life sciences space. I run regular Expert Office Hours and cover areas like go-to-market and commercialisation strategy, product development and clinical validation, implementation, strategic partnerships and innovation funding.

I have joined the UCL Global Business School for Health as Visiting Professor and Module Lead for the MSc in Global Healthcare Management postgraduate programme and the upcoming MSc in Health Systems, Policy and Innovation programme (launch in 2026). I am teaching the 10-week course module focused on leading innovation and change in healthcare for which I am the Module Lead. More info about the programme here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/global-business-school-health/study/postgraduate-taught/msc-global-healthcare-management-routes

I have joined EDHEC Business School as Adjunct Professor in Healthcare Innovation & Technology for the Executive MBA Programme in Healthcare Innovation & Technology. This Executive MBA programme focuses on educating students to effectively navigate the existing challenges in the global healthcare economy and to lead the transformation the healthcare sector needs. The course module I am teaching focuses specifically on leadership in healthcare innovation in the digital age. More info about the programme here: https://www.edhec.edu/en/programmes/mba-emba/executive-mba-healthcare-innovation-technology I also take on the role of Academic Supervisor for EDHEC student consultancy projects.

I am an advisor at the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. As an advisor, I run regular Expert Office Hours in the Stanford Venture Studio with a particular focus on health and life sciences ventures. The Center for Entrepreneurial Studies (CES) supports entrepreneurship learning at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Through experiential programs such as Stanford Venture Studio, Startup Garage, and the Botha Chan Summer Innovation Internship, I support and guide entrepreneurial students who are ideating, exploring, validating, and testing new venture ideas. I support teams and solo founders at any stage of their venture idea, with a particular focus on health and life sciences ventures. A key aspect of the support that CES offers is the ability to connect with people with relevant expertise like advisors and mentors to provide early and valuable feedback as founders ideate, experiment, and pivot their ideas, as well as to build relationships that may be valuable to them as they build and grow their ventures.

I am a purpose-driven innovator, healthcare technology entrepreneur and business executive committed to improving societal outcomes. Throughout my career, I have led innovation and venture building projects within startups, academia, industry, nonprofits and governments, in both developed and low-income countries. I advise a wide range of stakeholders on innovation, product, commercialisation, market and R&D strategy, and innovative product development and help them address key issues in their organisations. Please visit my webpage: https://www.isabelvandekeere.com/ for more details. • As an Innovation Consultant and Fractional Executive, I offer expert advice on Purpose-driven Innovation, Healthcare Technology Innovation, Business & Innovation Strategy, Commercialisation & Go-to-Market Strategy, Validation & Implementation Strategy, Strategic Partnerships, Collaborative Research Partnerships, Design Thinking Processes, Change Management, Discovery & Ideation, Product Design & Development, Research & Innovation Processes, Fundraising, Service Design, Business Plans, Business Development, Operational Processes, Stakeholder Engagement, Innovation Funding. • I have advised and worked with startups, SMEs, non-profits (Global Disability Innovation Hub, Digital Medicine Society), agencies, governments, academia, international institutions (European Commission, WHO, UN) and corporate clients specialising in Healthcare, Digital Health, MedTech, Immersive Technology, Disability Innovation, BioTech, Remote Care, Assistive Technology, FemTech, Mental Health, Tech For Good, International Development, Biomechanics, Biomaterials. Get in touch if you are looking for expert advice on: Innovation Processes, Commercialisation Strategy, Strategic Partnerships, Product Design & Development, Healthcare Technology, Technology Transfer, Design Thinking, Change Management, Research Strategy, Validation & Implementation Strategy, Stakeholder Engagement, Customer Relations, Fundraising

After having engaged with the Datarwe team for a few years now, I am thrilled to join their Advisory Board. Becoming an advisor at Datarwe is a true privilege as the team is leading the way towards developing the world’s most comprehensive clinical real world data platform, accelerating the translation of clinically validated innovations. The Datarwe team are passionate about supporting their network partners' increased adoption of medical AI innovation to the patient bedside and beyond. I look forward to contributing to their mission to tackle the challenge of revolutionising medicine through enhanced real world clinical data access. You can learn more about Datarwe's work here: https://datarwe.com/who-we-are/

As an expert in healthcare technology and purpose-driven innovation at Singularity University, my main focus is on the delivery of their cutting-edge programs, global challenges and events.

I am one of the Workshop Facilitators for the Future of Healthcare Founder Residency Program at The Roux Institute at Northeastern University. I cover the following workshop topics during the sessions with the Future of Healthcare Founder Residency founders: - Clinical Trial Study Design - Research Partnerships with Academic Institutions The year-long Future of Healthcare Founder Residency is designed to support digital health, healthcare technology, biotech, and clinical innovation founders at the earliest stages of their entrepreneurial journey. Founders will work out of the Roux Institute’s cutting-edge innovation hub in Portland and have direct access to Northern Light Health and MaineHealth clinicians for mentorship, subject-matter expertise, and to serve as testing grounds for their technologies. Maine Venture Fund, the state’s venture capital fund, also works with companies on-site and is an investor in the program.

- Expert for TBM projects: Applied Biomedical Research projects with a primary societal aim. The TBM funding programme aims to support late stage research projects that lead to the implementation of new therapies, diagnostic techniques or preventive methods, that would otherwise not reach the patient due to a lack of industrial interest. - Expert for SBO projects: Expert panel on Biomedical & Health Sciences The Strategic Basic Research (SBO) programme focuses on innovative research which, if scientifically successful, will create prospects for economic or societal applications (e.g. a new generation of products, processes and/or services).

PhD Thesis titled: "Influence of surface charge on the adsorption of proteins on titanium" (VUBPRESS Brussels University Press, ISBN 978 90 5487 561 1) PhD Research on Biomaterials & Medical Implants with a focus on Titanium medical implants, funded through my PhD Fellowship from Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) The aim of my PhD research was to understand how human proteins interact with biomaterial surfaces (like titanium) in order to enable on the one hand reduction of the thrombogenic character of biomaterial surfaces in case of e.g. cardiovascular implants, and to stimulate on the other hand protein adsorption on biomaterial surfaces to improve the tissue-implant interface in case of bone implants. Joint PhD with Biological Physics Group at Chalmers University of Technology to develop an in-situ cell that combines electrochemical and QCM-D measurements to monitor protein adsorption. --> Solvay Award 2009 awarded for my PhD thesis: https://youtu.be/7_v5ds8bGRg?feature=shared

During my PhD studies, several extended research visits were undertaken in the Biological & Chemical Physics Groups at Chalmers University of Technology under the supervision of Professor Bengt Kasemo and Professor Sofia Svedhem. During those visits, I collaborated with researchers at Chalmers and QSense AB, the spin-off company creating the microbalances, on the development of a now commercially available setup and in-situ cell that combines electrochemical and quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation measurements with the aim to monitor the influence of surface charge on the adsorption of proteins on titanium surfaces. The collaboration with the Biological Physics Group and QSense AB was very successful and led to the global commercialisation of this electrochemical cell.

MSc Thesis Focused on Medical Implants, Biomechanics and Biomaterials Science: "Study of the corrosion fatigue of biomaterials (medical implants) made out of Ti6Al4V ELI" I was working in close collaboration with an orthopaedic surgeon at the University Hospital to understand the biomechanics and material fatigue aspects behind medical implant failure. For research purposes, I had access to anonymised patient data regarding medical implant failure. Laureate for Best Master Thesis in Biomedical Engineering in Flanders, awarded by the ‘Genootschap Biomedische Techniek en Gezondheidszorg van het KVIV’/'Biomedical technology and Health Care Society of the Royal Flemish Engineering Society' (2004)