TRU-Entrepreneur Speaker Series Features Biotech Alumna
Jeanette (Robbins) Hill (’84) will speak from 12:30-1:20 p.m. Nov. 13 in the Doug & Diane Villhard Innovation Lab located in the Pickler Memorial Library, as part of the TRU-Entrepreneur Speaker Series.
Hill is a biotech entrepreneur and currently founder and CEO of NanAby, which is developing new technology to catalyze captured CO2 into permanent and useful products. Previously, she founded and sold an award-winning company, Spot On Sciences, that developed medical devices to allow a blood sample to be taken at home with a finger stick.
All totaled, Hill has more than 20 years of experience in research and management positions in small and large companies, working on preclinical drug testing and pharmaceutical research. She received a Ph.D. in bio-organic chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis and has published research in protein engineering, liver disease and diabetes. Hill is originally from Palmyra, Missouri, and graduated from Truman with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry in 1984.