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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 …

Naomi Aduroja joins as a Roivant Social Ventures Global Access Fellow

💥 A warm welcome to Naomi Aduroja who joins us as a Roivant Social Ventures Global Access Fellow this summer. Currently preparing for her third year in the prestigious PharmD program at UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy – we’re delighted to have Naomi support various R&D projects leaning on her experience including from across pharmacy …

Amy Coulson joins the Vaginal Microbiome team

We’re delighted to welcome Amy Coulson to CLCC in advance of starting her Ph.D. journey at Queen Mary University of London. Over the next 4 years she’ll be working with our team and QMUL’s Centre for Doctoral Training in Next Generation Organ on a Chip Technology (COaCT) to develop a vaginal organ-on-a-chip to grasp successful …

Discover CLCC’s B Corp Impact Report

We believe that true success in business must be measured not just by commercial milestones, but by the positive impact we create. To us, being a B Corp is more than a certification – it’s a daily commitment to balancing people, planet, profit, and purpose. B Lab’s rigorous standards provide a clear framework for accountability …

Lia Mae Pellegrini joins as Product Development Engineering Intern

We are excited to welcome Lia Mae Pellegrini as a Product Development Engineering Intern! Lia Mae holds a First Class Honours Master’s in Product Design Engineering from Queen’s University Belfast, where in her final year of university she reached the finals of both the Co-Founders programme run by the Northern Ireland tech hub Catalyst and …

CLCC at Microbes in Women’s Health Congress – Amsterdam

Our colleague Elham Shirani  will be at the second Microbes in Women’s Health Congress in Amsterdam on 9-10 April. 🇳🇱 We’re excited to meet with existing and new partners for 2 days of talks, panels and networking.  Our user convenient Callavid® drug delivery platform will help provide effective colonisation and epithelial adherence of live biotherapeutics …

Raising funding for Tommy’s Charity 🏃‍♀️

🎉 Congratulations to our colleague Sabrina Franco for completing the London Landmarks Half Marathon in support of Tommy’s – the pregnancy and baby charity! We’re proud to support Sabrina’s great work and efforts in raising awareness and funds for such an important cause. 💙

Int’l Women’s Day
Thang Vo-Ta
Co-Founder & CEO

A slightly belated nod to International Women’s Day (as we’ve just taken this 📸 )— but still just in time for Women’s History Month. I want to take a moment to share how incredibly grateful I am to work alongside such a brilliant, dedicated, and inspiring group of women at Calla Lily Clinical Care 🔬 It’s …

FemHealth Integrates Conference 25 in Manchester
Serena de Gelidi, PhD
R&D Manager

☀️ The sun was shining on Manchester (apparently an unusual phenomenon) yesterday for the very first Fem Health Integrates conference. So many bright minds reunited to discuss the gaps and missed opportunities in women’s health, but mostly the future steps to change the story. 🚺 Thank you to Anastassia Bolotkova for showing me around, Jessica …

Film Industry Network: Kaylie Mings discusses Women’s Health at SXSW
Kaylie Mings
Product Development Engineer

To coincide with the launch of this year’s SXSW, the Film Industry Network discussing women’s health with Texas native and product development engineer Kaylie Mings.  Interview here: https://filmindustry.network/product-development-engineer-kaylie-mings-discusses-womens-health-at-sxsw/40570