Meeting the great Prof Kypros Nicolaides
It was such an honour and personally very meaningful to meet Professor Kypros Nicolaides, the father of Fetal Medicine. His pioneering work has revolutionised maternal-fetal care and saved the lives of countless babies around the world. From developing life-saving screening techniques for conditions like preeclampsia and chromosomal abnormalities, to his groundbreaking role in shaping how …
Vaginal Drug Delivery—The Future
Things are busy over at Calla Lily Clinical Care! The office is buzzing with all hands-on deck as we prepare for our first in-women trial delivering progesterone via our leak-free Callavid® vaginal drug delivery device. I’m not joking when I saw “all hands-on deck.” Thang Vo-Ta has packed our office to the brim this summer. …
The Memo: CLCC Developing Callavid as the Essential Drug Delivery Platform for Women
Under the direction of co-founders Dr Lara Zibners and Thang Vo-Ta is reimagining vaginal drug delivery with its CallavidⓇ device—engineering a next-generation platform that improves both clinical outcomes and patient experience in women’s health. “Our revolutionary Callavid platform hugely increases the possibilities for intravaginal drug delivery by enabling treatments with enhanced efficacy, lower drug doses, …
In Conversation with the Health Innovator: Dr Lara Zibners
[Original post here from Health Innovation Insider] In each edition, we delve into the minds of those who are redefining the boundaries of health. Our goal is to share the insights and stories of those leading the way to achieve the highest attainable standard of health and wellbeing for everyone. In this edition of Health …
CLCC to attend LSI Asia 2025
Always excited to return home to Singapore 🇸🇬 – and especially looking forward to attend LSIAsia25 next month, LSI’s first Asian summit! Looking forward to a packed agenda of meetings and reconnecting with contacts & collaborators, both old and new. ✊
100 Women at UNC Kenan-Flagler: Breaking Barriers in Male-Dominated Fields
Breaking Barriers in Male-Dominated Fields Original post. When I was a child, my mother told me I could do anything, be anything. At the same time, she complained when my dad’s radiology practice hired a female physician because “she’s going to have babies and then your father is going to have to cover her night …
Scheilly Tsilova PhD joins as Senior Pharmaceutical Scientist
We’re delighted to welcome Scheilly Tsilova, Ph.D to the Calla Lily Clinical Care team as our new Senior Pharmaceutical Scientist. 🥼 For the past two years, Scheilly has been instrumental in advancing our Callavid® vaginal drug delivery technology while pursuing her PhD at UCL, with a focus on polymer-based drug delivery systems. Her deep technical …
Latest Recurrent Pregnancy Loss guidelines at ACOG
One of the highlights of attending the latest annual ACOG Clinical & Scientific meeting was joining a packed auditorium to hear Dr Ruth Lathi’s compelling lecture, “New Guidelines, New Hope for Recurrent Pregnancy Loss.” 📖 Dr. Lathi, the Director of the Multi-Specialty Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Program and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford University …
WAM Forum Learnings
3 things I learned at the WAM Forum luncheon in Las Vegas! I was so delighted to be invited to attend the Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement forum networking breakfast and luncheon yesterday. Such an incredible group of people brought together to find collaboration and solutions for women’s health. Our bodies are pretty intertwined. Brain health is …
ACOG in Minneapolis
Spending time in Minneapolis for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Annual Clinical & Scientific Meeting was even better than I had hoped. Besides the constant engagement with passionate American OBGYNs (so many of which are excited to hear about our Callavid® drug delivery technology) – it was superb to connect with other …