Students, Fellows & Scholars

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...
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)...
Visiting Scholar
Carmen Escobedo-Lucea, Ph.D.
Carmen is currently a Principal Investigator at the University of Helsinki and an Academy of Finland Research Fellow. She has over 15 years experience in Human Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine. Carmen has pioneered research in human stem cell derivation and culture, and Regenerative Medicine. In particular, her research activities include the use of mesenchymal...
Visiting Scholar
James Gorman, M.D., Ph.D.
James R. Gorman, M.D., Ph.D. is a biopharma executive and serial entrepreneur, currently serving as Strategic Advisor to Agenus, and as Director of 180 Therapeutics. At Agenus, a publicly traded immune-oncology company, Dr. Gorman recently served as VP of Corporate Development and Strategy, assuming responsibilities of acting COO, including partnering and funding strategy, portfolio management...
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...
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...
Visiting Scholar
Sylvain Meylan, M.D., Ph.D.
Sylvain Meylan is a medical graduate from Switzerland. He completed his medical school training between Lausanne (University of Lausanne) and Stockholm (Karolinska Institute, Sweden) in 2006, and received an M.D. Ph.D. in Genetics and Epigenetics from the Swiss Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne. His thesis work focused on retroviral restriction factors and notably the identification...
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...