IDEA² Faculty

2024 Edition

Pilar Alcaide
Associate Professor of Immunology, Tufts University School of Medicine

Tamar Aprahamian Putiri
Founder and Principal, JetPub Scientific Communications

Teresa Arroyo Gallego
CEO, area2.ai

Mercedes Balcells-Camps
Principal Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jeff Behrens
Founder and Board Member, LabShares Newton, LLC

Judith Birkenfeld
Researcher, Instituto de Optica “Daza de Valdes” 

Alan Braly
Senior Director, Global Portfolio Strategy, FMI

Peter Bryant
Adjunct Professor, IE Business School

Carlos Castro-Gonzalez
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Leuko

Vipul Chitalia
Professor of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Shivang Dave
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, PlenOptika

Mike Dempsey
Entrepreneur in Residence, Massachusetts General Hospital - CIMIT

Bjoern Eskofier
Research Group Leader, Helmholtz Munich

José Estabil
Chief Business Officer, Cipherome

Randel Frazier
Consulting Business Advisor, Biocomx

Germán Gonzalez Serrano
Director of Product Development, PNPResearch Corporation

Martha Gray
Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Paul Hartung
Board Director and Strategy Advisor for MedTech Companies

Joaquin L. Herraiz
Associate Professor, Complutense University of Madrid

Arthur Hiller
Commercial strategy consultant, Hiller Life Sciences Strategies

Daniel Hurtado
Founder, IC Innovations

Beth Kahn
Associate director and lead instructor, New England Region Innovation Node (NERIN) at MIT

Wolfgang Krull
Accelerator Executive, Massachusetts General Hospital - CIMIT

Christopher Lee
Founder and CEO, Fourier Health

Nancy Levy
Managing Partner at BostonLanding.us and Biohealth Management, LLC

Camila Maciel de Oliveira
Visiting Associate Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine

Norberto Malpica
Associate Professor, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Berta Marti Fuster
Chief of Staff, Oncoheroes Biosciences

Susan Moreira
Principal, Moreira Advisors

Francisca Mulero
Head Molecular Imaging Department, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO)

Michael Naimark
Director of Business Development, CBSET

David Rothkopf
President, MEDIcept

Fernanda Soza
Executive Director, ChileMass

Barry Stein
Chief Clinical Innovation Officer and Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Hartford HealthCare

Angel Torrado Carvajal
Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Isaac Tourgeman
Clinical Neuropsychologist Design Neuroscience Center Assistant Professor, Albizu University

Jessica Tytell
Senior Director of Business Development, Ginkgo Bioworks


Faculty bios

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Iliyana Atanasova

Clarion Healthcare Columbia Engineering

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Mercedes Balcells-Camps

Program Chair IDEA² Global, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Pamela Bellino

Patient Safety Manager at VA Boston Healthcare System

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Judith Birkenfeld

Works at Instituto de Optica “Daza de Valdes”

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Carlos Castro González

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Michael K. Dempsey

CIMIT, Yale University

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José Estabil

Co-Founder, ADN Genomix

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Stephan Gaehde

Chief of Emergency Services at VA Boston

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Arnold Gelb

Senior Director, Clinical Development at Ziopharm Oncology

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Martha Gray

IDEA² Global Co-Chair, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Peter Hansen

Founder Union Biometrica Technology Holdings

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Arthur Hiller

CEO at Antyllus Therapeutics, Inc.

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Petra Krauledat

PNP Reseach Corporation

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Wolfgang Krull

Managing Partner at Kessco

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Nancy Levy

Managing Partner at Biohealth Management

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Norberto Malpica

Associate Professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

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Berta Marti Fuster

Head of Partner Relations at Oncokids Biosciences

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Andrea Pomerantz

Investigator at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research

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Azahara Rodriguez

Scientific Advisor, Cantabria Labs

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David Rothkopf

President and Founding Principal, MEDIcept

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Barry Stein

Chief Clinical Innovation Officer, Hartford HealthCare

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Mehmet Toner

IDEA2 Global Co-Chair; Helen Andrus Benedict Professor of Biomedical Engineering Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital

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Doris Sommer

Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies  Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University

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Jason Tucker-Schwartz

Director of Marketing at NinePoint Medical

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Jessica Tytell

Executive Director for the Biological Design Center at Boston University

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Amanda Wagner

VP, Corporate and Business Development Atlas Ventures

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Mary Wallingford

Principal Investigator, Tufts University School of Medicine

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Michael Woonton

Data Product Engagement Manager

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Claire Zhao

Scientist at Philips Research