Akansh Murthy was the co-founder of HermesIQ, a healthcare IT startup that is building productivity tools for physicians. Prior to HermesIQ, he was an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he started an international nonprofit on computer literacy. His interests include fitness, traveling, and cooking/eating. He is a 2014 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Boston.

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Anoop is currently working at Columbia University Medical Center. Prior to this, he managed the IP portfolio at AgaMatrix, a company that makes blood glucose measurement devices for diabetics. Prior to that, he worked at Global Prior Art, an IP consulting company, where is jointly led the medical/surgical device group. His work included IP landscape development to assist in client’s strategic, technical and legal decision making; primarily focusing on minimally invasive cardiothoracic, orthopedic and GI surgery. While at MIT, he was a runner up at the $50K Entrepreneurship Competition, the President of a Cultural group and a Math tutor for a SAT outreach program. He was selected to be a 2008 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Boston. He holds an MS from School of Engineering at MIT, and clinical training and research training from KMC, Mangalore and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), India. All along, his research work in computational biology and medicine was supported by several fellowships & scholarships.

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Brandon Doan is the founder and CEO of Hemova Medical. He is a medical devices entrepreneur. He was Mass Challenge 2013 finalist. He was also a finalist in the Young Entrepreneurs Initiative France 2013. He got first place in the ASME innovation showcase in 2011. He holds bachelors and masters degrees from The Johns Hopkins University. He loves to backpack and have been to many national parks within the US. He is a 2014 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Boston.

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Christopher Tsai, Founder, Careinnovators & Eventfizz Christopher is a physician entrepreneur and the Co-Founder of two startups: EventFizz, an event media platform, and Careinnovators, a company focused on supporting the health care entrepreneurial community. In addition, Chris consults on product strategy and development for health IT startups in the Boston area. Previously he served as Director of Clinical Informatics at a genetic testing benefits management startup and a patient-registry company. Chris completed a joint Harvard-MIT biomedical informatics fellowship at Brigham & Women’s Hospital. He served as Chief Resident at U.C. San Diego’s preventive medicine residency program where he designed a patented mobile health application. Chris also trained in emergency medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He holds an MD and MPH from Columbia University and a BA in anthropology from U.C. Berkeley. Chris is a Fellow of the 2012 Startup Leadership Program.

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Dave Greenwald was a co-founder of Relay Technology Management, Inc. (www.relaytm.com ), and serves as the Director of Technology. Relay won the Tufts Business Plan competition and was chosen as a finalist in MassChallenge. He has several years of business development and intellectual property (IP) portfolio management experience with Wright Marketing in New York and is currently The Director, Business Development and Corporate Relations at Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures. David is a Ph.D. in Genetics from the Tufts Sackler Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, where he was awarded an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award to study gene therapy strategies for retinal degeneration diseases. He was selected as a 2009 Felow in the Startup Leadership Program in Boston and became a Program Manager in the following year. David was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) research fellow while earning a B.S. in Cellular Biology and Molecular Genetics from the University of Maryland, College Park. Mr. Greenwald enjoys tennis, biking, golf and world traveling.

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John Moore, Founder & CEO, PrescribableApps John is CEO and founder of PrescribableApps, a software platform to help in the provision of care for chronic disease. After spending a little over two years conducting genetics research at Massachusetts General Hospital and Novartis, he realized he no longer wanted to work at the lab bench and moved on to pursue his interests in entrepreneurship. He worked at Partners Healthcare Research Ventures and Licensing, learning about licensing and IP law, as well as how to read patents. From there, he joined the Mass Medical Angels (MA2) screening and executive committees, helping decide what companies should be brought before the broader membership for investment consideration. While still fulfilling these MA2 duties, John is also a member of the Collaborative Care Technology Working Group and New England Healthcare Executives Network. His latest initiative is to bring an alumni assisted, student led entrepreneurship program to Vassar College, his alma mater.John Moore graduated from Vassar College with a degree in Neuroscience in 2007. He is a 2012 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Boston.

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Kathryn is a leading entrepreneur and Scientist.

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Kerry Mahon is the Manager of Scientific Development at Stemgent, Inc., a company that is pioneering new methods of cellular reprogramming. He joined Stemgent as one of the first scientific hires at the outset of the company in 2008 and continues to support R&D while coordinating new technology evaluation, partnerships, and licensing activities. Kerry completed his postdoctoral studies with Prof. Robert Langer and Prof. Dan Anderson at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he engineered new materials for the therapeutic delivery of siRNA, improving delivery efficiency in non-human primates by orders of magnitude over previously published methods. As a graduate student at Boston College, he was awarded a fellowship in Chemical Biology and completed his dissertation under the direction of Prof. Shana Kelley. There, his research focused on the generation and application of novel peptide conjugates for the purposes of studying amino acid-DNA interactions, subcellular localization of small molecules, and cellular responses to oxidative stress. Kerry has consulted for various early stage startups and also held positions at Pfizer, Inc. working in scale-up chemical synthesis and process development. He is an author on ten peer reviewed publications and named inventor on four patents. Kerry is a 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Boston.

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Life scientist turned entrepreneur

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Neuroscience PhD, Neurotechnologist, Entrepreneur, and world traveler.

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Pamela Basto is a Ph.D. Candidate in Biomedical Engineering in the Harvard-MIT Health Science & Technology Program and NSF Fellow who is completing her dissertation research under the tutelage of Professor Robert Langer, Professor Omid Farokhzad, and Professor Ulrich von Andrian. Her research involves developing a novel polymeric vaccine platform and studying the mechanism that drives its potent antigen-specific adaptive immune response. Her work has contributed towards 7 co-authored peer-reviewed papers, 4 awards, and 7 patents, 6 of which are licensed to two start-ups that have become major players in translating nanoparticles therapeutics to the clinics: Selecta Biosciences & BIND Biosciences. Along with her interests in modulating the immune system, she is passionate about global health and US health care reform. She has experience in the clinics as an internal medicine intern both in the Texas Medical Center and at Mt. Auburn/MGH and with community health initiatives with The Family Van and Boston MALE Center. She has consulted for CARE Hospitals, fourth largest tertiary care hospital chain in India, to help secure their customer base. She graduated magna cum laude from The University of Texas-Austin in Biomedical Engineering. She is a 2013 fellow in the 2013 Startup Leadership Program in Boston.

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Pushwaz Virk is the Chief Medical Information Officer for St Joseph Health in Sonoma Region where he also works as a hospital medicine physician. Previously, he was the Vice President of Medical Affairs at a mobile heathcare technology company. He has also worked in strategy consulting and software product management. Pushwaz was the Co-founder and Director of Mass Medical Angels, a life sciences and healthcare focused angel group based in Boston, MA. Pushwaz has an MD and subsequently obtained MBA from University of Delhi and an MPH with Fellowship in Healthcare Management from Harvard University. Pushwaz lives in Santa Rosa, CA.

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Stephen Dion is the founder of Payworthy, a startup helping provider organizations (doctors offices and hospitals) with collecting patient due amounts that are ever increasing due to rising deductibles. He is also the Director of Product Management at WellMatch. Prior to WellMatch, he worked at GE Healthcare, where he was the Product Marketing Manager- New Initiatives. Stephen has also worked at SmartSignal Corporation, Silvon Software and PeopleSoft, Inc.. He is an expert in Product Management, Marketing Strategy and Analytics. He holds a degree in Economics and History and an MBA from Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. He is 2015 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Boston.

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