Academic & Industry Advisors


Pushkal Garg, MD

Chief Medical Officer, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals

Yannick Brunet, PhD

Biotech Consultant

Kelly Girskis, PhD

Investment Director, Aberdeen

Former Vice President of Research at Tekla Capital Management

Yijie Ma, PhD

Vice President, Head of Business Development and External Innovation, CANbridge Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Steven Neier, PhD

Principal, Binney Street Capital

Co-Founder, NextRNA Therapeutics

Co-Founder, SAB Member, SanaRx Biotherapeutics

Nitin Joshi, PhD

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Co-founder and Co-chair Scientific Advisory Board, Akita Biosciences

Leadership


Alain Ndayisaba, MD

PhD Candidate, Neuroscience Medical University Innsbruck & Harvard Medical School

Katlyn Gabriel

PhD Candidate, Biological Sciences in Public Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Kai Wang

PhD candidate, Harvard University

Dennis Wu

PhD student, Harvard University

Past Leadership


Ilzat Ali

Co-Director (2023-2025)

PhD Candidate, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Harvard University

Luke Murphy, PhD

Co-Director (2023-2024)

Consultant at Back Bay Life Science Advisors

Shuhan Huang, PhD

Co-Director (2023-2024)

Scientist at the Wyss Institute

Bingchen Li, PhD

Associate Director (2023-2024)

Associate at McKinsey & Company

Alan Fowler, PhD

Associate Director (2022-2024)

Staff Scientist at Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

Benedetto DiCiaccio, PhD

Director (2022-2023)

Senior Life Sciences Specialist at L.E.K.

Kurt Kongthong, PhD

Associate Director (2022-2023)

Science Fellow at Luma Group

Michael Mazzola, PhD

Associate Director (2022-2023)

Equity Research Analyst at Piper Sandler

Lani Pilobello, PhD

Director (2021-2022)

Scientist II, Biotech Newco

Jeff Haswell, PhD

Director (2018-2019)

Associate Director at Arbor Biotechnologies

Madalyn Won, PhD

Director (2019-2021)

Associate at McKinsey & Company

Kelly Girskis, PhD

Director (2016-2018)

Investment Director at Aberdeen

Industry Advisor of HBI

Erin Sharoni

Associate Director (2019-2021)

VP of Commercial at ALZAI Health

Fractional CEO at at ScienceCast

Alex Simon, PhD

Founder (2014-2016)

Founder and Managing Director at Century Press, BD at RetinaLogik

Antonio Arciniegas, MD

Co-Director (2024-2025)

Research Scientist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital