Academic & Industry Advisors


Robert Distel, PhD

Special Advisor for Technology Development at Dana-Farber

Former Director of Dana-Farber Translational Research Laboratory

Pushkal Garg, MD

Chief Medical Officer, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals

Kelly Girskis, PhD

Investment Director, abrdn

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

Student Leadership


Ilzat Ali

PhD Candidate, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Harvard University

Katlyn Gabriel

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

Antonio Arciniegas, MD

Research Scientist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Past Student Leadership


Alan Fowler, PhD

Associate Director (2022-2024)

Research Fellow, Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Benedetto DiCiaccio, PhD

Director (2022-2023)

PhD Candidate, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Harvard University

Kurt Kongthong

Associate Director (2022-2023)

PhD Candidate, Immunology, Harvard University

Michael Mazzola, PhD

Associate Director (2022-2023)

PhD Candidate, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Harvard University

Lani Pilobello, PhD

Director (2021-2022)

Scientist II, Biotech Newco

Jeff Haswell, PhD

Director (2018-2019)

Principal Scientist, Arbor Biotechnologies

Madalyn Won, PhD

Director (2019-2021)

Associate at McKinsey & Company

Kelly Girskis, PhD

Director (2016-2018)

Vice President, Research at Tekla Capital Management

Erin Sharoni

Associate Director (2019-2021)

Master of Bioethics candidate, Harvard Medical School; Chief Product Officer, FOXO

Alex Simon, PhD

Founder (2014-2016)

Founder and Managing Director at Century Press, BD at RetinaLogik

Luke Murphy

Director (2023-2024)

PhD Candidate, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Harvard University

Bingchen Li, PhD

Associate Director (2023-2024)

Research Fellow, Cancer Genetics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School

Shuhan Huang

Director (2023-2024)

PhD Candidate, Neuroscience, Harvard University