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Anupendra Sharma, Founder and Course Mentor
Anupendra is Partner at Siemens Venture Capital in Boston, investing in healthcare (devices, diagnostics, software and services). Anupendra founded the Startup Leadership Program, a global program for educating startup CEOs, which now has 500 Fellows and 300 startups that have raised $150MM. Anupendra was an investment banker at JPMorgan and Citigroup, M&A specialist at Siemens, and helped set up Ford Motor in India and China. He co-founded Mobile Medics, winner of the 2006 by the Global Social Venture Competition, which became an hour-long documentary by Japan Broadcasting Corporation, and was later taken over by Piramal Corporation. Anupendra also started a shrimp farm in Belize, Central America. He holds an MBA from Cornell, MS in Accounting & Finance from Manchester Business School, MS in Economics and Bachelors in Instrumentation Engineering from BITS Pilani, India, and grew up in a family of medical doctors. |
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Hannah Goldberg, Director
Hannah is a PhD student in the Harvard/MIT Speech Hearing Bioscience and Technology program. She previously worked with Dr. Daniel Kohane in the Laboratory for Biomaterials and Drug Delivery at Boston Children’s Hospital focusing on the optimization of a single-application hydrogel drug delivery system to noninvasively treat Otitis Media. In 2016 she was accepted into Harvard's Therapeutics Graduate Program to further focus on pharmacology, toxicology and drug discovery. Her concentration in translational science has brought her to the Holt/Géléoc Lab to explore the effectiveness of gene therapy as an approach to restore auditory functioning in models of human deafness. Hannah completed her undergraduate studies in Neuroscience at Wellesley College. Before attending graduate school, she conducted research in the computational neuroscience lab of Dr. Barbara Shinn-Cunningham studying the mechanisms underlying auditory attention. |
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Paola Abello, Director of Innovation
Paola Abello, MBA, is Director of Innovation at the Center for Primary Care. In 2015 Paola designed and launched InciteHealth, a one year intensive accelerator for primary care start-ups. Teams from around the country received funding, mentorship and participated in entrepreneurship and design thinking training as well as took part in three pitch events during the year. Currently, the Center’s innovation work is focused on providing education, training and support to medical students, post-docs and PhDs interested in creating health care startups. Paola is also working on expanding the medical school’s initiatives around innovation and entrepreneurship. |
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Jennifer Bourgoin, Program Coordinator of Innovation
Jen is the InciteHealth Program Coordinator at the Center for Primary Care. In this role, Jennifer supports the Center’s innovation programs. Jennifer graduated from Wheaton College in 2011 and has coordinated programs for mission-driven organizations ever since. Most recently, Jennifer worked at MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership, where she coordinated convenings for the youth mentoring field and facilitated conversations about innovations in practice. Jennifer also developed trainings and supported MENTOR’s research to practice work. |
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Anthony Ayala, Logistics
Anthony is a PhD student in the Harvard Chemistry and Chemical Biology program. His graduate work, under the direction of Dr. Nathanael Gray, focuses on the development of proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) to investigate biological processes that drive cancer. Prior to Harvard, he worked with Dr. Luke Lavis at the Janelia Research Campus on the synthesis of bright fluorescent labels as tools for sensitive bioimaging experiments. He completed his undergraduate work in chemistry at the University of Maryland, College Park. |
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Audrey Sporrij, Communications
Audrey Sporrij is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University. Her thesis research focuses on understanding chromatin reorganization following inflammatory stimulation of hematopoietic stem cells. She is a recipient of the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD Fellowship and works alongside Harvard’s Office of Technology Development as a Business Development Fellow, assessing the commercialization potential of Harvard technologies. Audrey acquired her B.Sc. in Biomedical Sciences from Maastricht University and M.Sc. in Cancer, Stem Cell & Developmental Biology from Utrecht University, both located in The Netherlands. |
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Anh Ngo, Logistics
Anh is an anesthesiologist and pain medicine physician, served as an Instructor of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He has also served as Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Ngo received his BS in the Biological Sciences, MBA with emphasis in Information Technology Management from the Paul Merage School of Business, and MD from the School of Medicine at the University of California Irvine (UCI). Anh completed his anesthesiology residency at the USC Keck School of Medicine and his pain medicine fellowship at Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Anh has been involved with several companies, including a boutique real estate investment firm and a medical group merger and acquisition exit valued in the mid-eight figure range. He is also currently a member of Mass Medical Angels (MA2), a member of Harvard Medical School's Committee on Admissions, and an investment fellow at a biotechnology and life sciences hedge fund, Ascentia Asset Management. |
HIC Board Alumni
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Andrew Ayoob, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School, HIC 2012-2017
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Sofia Carlton, Scientific Strategy Fellow, Evelo Biosciences, HIC 2013-17
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Harshal Zope, Principal Scientist, WaveGuide, HIC 2014-2017
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Rohan Gidvani, Life Sciences Consultant, Putnam Associates, HIC 2017
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Edwin Delfin, Associate, RBC Capital Markets, HIC 2019
Tyler Brown, HIC 2019
Ross Barman, HIC 2019