I am currently a Business Development Associate in the Belfer Office for Dana-Farber Innovations where I work closely with investigators and external partners to create new collaborations and drive commercialization of Dana-Farber technologies. You can find out more about the Innovation Office including collaboration opportunities here.

Prior to joining the Dana-Farber Innovation Office, I was a strategy consultant at Health Advances working to deliver actionable insights to clients across biopharma, diagnostics, and digital health. My experience included market analysis, growth strategy, competitive assessment, technology commercialization, product positioning, survey design, and revenue forecasting.

I received my PhD in Biological Engineering from MIT, studying synthetic biology and novel molecular diagnostics, and his BS in Physics from Indiana University. My PhD previous research focused on biomedical applications of synthetic biology in the labs of Jim Collins and Domitilla Del Vecchio. I published on engineering genetic circuits in bacteria, CRISPR diagnostics, synthetic biology education, and microbiome RNA diagnostics. My thesis focused on improving nucleic acid detection technologies for human health applications. You can check out my research publications or go to my Google Scholar page.

While in grad school I also worked in the MIT BE Communication Lab as a communication fellow. I held coaching sessions and develop resources to help other students and researchers to improve their scientific communication. As fellows we went gone through specific training to coach other scientists on their talks, writing, and other communication. Putting those science communication skills to work I wrote about synthetic biology for the PLOS Synthetic Biology Community Blog. I interviewed leading synthetic biologists, summarized the latest research findings, and covered some of the top conferences.