Tomas de Wouters

Food Engineer at the ETH Zurich and PhD in microbiome biology, CEO and co-founder at PharmaBiome, expert host-microbiota interaction in the human gut.

Tomas is a leading expert in the microbiome and its role in human health, with over a decade of research on the intestinal microbiota and five years as the founding CEO of PharmaBiome. Combining his engineering background with a PhD in biology, Tomas leveraged his deep understanding of the microbiome to co-found the company. Together with his strong team of co-founders, he has built a proprietary platform technology for target discovery and product development in microbiome-based therapeutics—pioneering an innovative approach to transforming this emerging field into viable treatments.