Students, Fellows & Scholars
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Visiting Scholar
Laura Brass, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Laura has over 15 years of experience in business development, IP strategy, and deal structuring and negotiation in the biotech industry. She is currently the Vice President of Business Development at TriNetX, Inc., a venture-funded healthcare technology startup located in the Greater Boston area that focuses on developing a software platform leveraging patient data to...
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Visiting Scholar
Randy Castleman, M.B.A.
Randy is a longtime investor and developer of emerging technology-driven companies. He is a co-founder and managing partner of Court Square Ventures (CSTV, Yandex, Automated Insights), a private equity firm managing over $200 million for institutional investors. Prior to Court Square, he was involved in the formation of synthetic biology startup RheoGene (acquired by Intrexon)...
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Visiting Scholar
Ahmad Khalil, Ph.D.
Ahmad (Mo) Khalil is the Innovation Career Development Professor and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. He serves as the Associate Director and Founding Core Member of the Boston University Center of Synthetic Biology (CoSBi). His research is primarily in systems & synthetic biology. His lab uses quantitative and engineering approaches to understand...
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Visiting Scholar
Philseok Kim, Ph.D.
Philseok to translate the concepts of adaptive materials at laboratory scale to human scale structures to improve daylight autonomy and energy efficiency of buildings through the ALivE project, a collaboration between the Wyss Institutes Adaptive Material Technologies platform and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. His experience includes 8 years of R&D in chemical industry...
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Visiting Scholar
Keith Pardee, Ph.D.
Keith is the Canada Research Chair in Synthetic Biology and Health Human, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. As part of his postdoc with Jim Collins at the Wyss Institute, he developed two exciting new biotechnologies for applications in healthcare. The first was a low cost system that brings molecular diagnostics, usually...
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Visiting Scholar
Mitchell Zakin, Ph.D.
Mitchell is a chemist and innovator with 25 years of experience in R&D for defense and medical needs. He is currently Executive Vice President, Government Development and Innovation, at Nano Terra, Inc., a development-stage firm that translates academic inventions into commercial products in partnership with large multinational corporations. He is also the co-founder of Soft...
