Tamlyn originates from Cape Town, South Africa where she studied her BSc in Human Life Sciences at Stellenbosch University, followed by her Honours, Masters and partial PhD in Medical Biochemistry at The University of Cape Town (UCT), Health Sciences. After leaving her PhD (long story) she went travelling Asia, teaching English and Science in Thailand at a high school for a year. In 2014, just before she left for her travels, she attended a Tedx Talk in Cape Town with her mother, Belinda and brother Daniel. At this talk Prof Ed Rybicki began speaking about using plants to produce recombinant proteins, particularly vaccines for Africa. They were all inspired by this and began investigating and Belinda, together with UCT’s RC&I office and Prof Rybicki’s lab (BRU), put together a proposal for government funding. In 2018, they found they had received the funding and she came back home to begin building the company with Belinda. For the last 3 years, she has been a director of Cape Bio Pharms, scientific director for the first 2 years and business development manager/sales liaison for the last year. Her next adventure will be completing her PhD in biopharming at Prof Rybicki’s lab next year!