Community
Roles
PROGRAM COHORTS
At the center of our programs are cohorts of participants drawn from across the biomedical innovation ecosystem. Though the scope of work varies by program, they share a focus on professional growth and driving impact in health technology.
FACULTY & MENTORS
Individuals who commit to participate regularly (weekly, or biweekly) for at 5-12 months (depending on the program) as part of a group mentoring team.
EXPERT ADVISORS
Individuals who provide teaching, mentorship, or advice in a one-on-one, committee, or class room setting.
CLINICAL INNOVATORS
Clinicians who participates on a part-time basis in one of the immersion programs
BUSINESS INTERNS
Business students or recent graduates who join a team in one of the immersion programs.
TRAINEES
Non-business students who join a team in one of the immersion programs. Their work may be suitable for a thesis for an advanced degree
Leadership
Martha Gray, PhD
J.W. Kieckhefer Professor, Harvard-MIT HST, EECS, RLE, and IMES
Director, MIT linQ
Deborah Burstein, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology and Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Co-Director, IMPACT
Mercedes Balcells-Camps, PhD
Principal Investigator, MIT
Program Chair, IDEA²
Faculty and mentors
Nicolás Alejandre-Alba
Miguel Ángel Morcillo Alonso
Juan Antonio Echenique Angulo
Etchenike & Consultores
Alfonso Antequera
Hospital de Fuenlabrada.
Brian Anthony
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Iliyana Atanasova
Sanofi Genzyme
José Luis Ausin
University of Extremadura
Mercedes Balcells-Camps
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andres Ballesteros
Vivia Biotech
Patricia Becsky-Nagy
Jorge Bensadon Belicha
Vitro
Chiara Bellini
Northeastern University
Pam Bellino
VA Boston Healthcare System
Fernando Bermejo San Jose
Comunidad de Madrid
Judith Birkenfeld
Instituto de Optica "Daza de Valdes" (IO-CSIC)
Michael Birrer
Partners Healthcare
José Luis Blanco Murillo
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
David Boas
Harvard Medical School
Fernando Valero Bonilla
Blanca Borro
Bank of Spain
Brett Bouma
Massachusetts General Hospital
Lydia Bourouiba
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alan Braly
Silverstone Biosciences
Emery Brown
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peter Bryant
IE Business School
Deb Burstein
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Peter Caravan
Massachusetts General Hospital
José María Carazo
CSIC
Chris Carr
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Juan Manuel Arco Casanova
Sedecal
Nazareth Perales Castellanos
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Carlos Castro González
Leuko
Alberto Cecconi
Carlos Roberto Jejia Chew
Javier Colas
Medtronic
Leah Cole
Sanofi Pasteur
Gabriel Cristobal
Instituto de Optica, CSIC
Beatriz Cubeiro
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Lorena Cusso
Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañon
Shivang Dave
PlenOptika
Heather L. Davidson
VA Boston Healthcare System
Gema de la Poza
Joseph DeAngelis
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Jason Dearling
Children's Hospital Boston
Michael Dempsey
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daniela Dinulescu
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Carlos Dorronsoro
Instituto de Optica, CSIC
Juan Echevarra
Luis Elvira Segura
CSIC
Russell Eng
Bjoern Eskofier
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuernberg
Jose Estabil
Stealth-mode biotech startup
Conor Evans
Massachusetts General Hospital
Osasere Evbuomwan
University of San Francisco
Georges El Fakhri
Massachusetts General Hospital
Will Febbo
OptimizeRx
Peter Feinstein
BioVentures Investors
Attila Ferik
GE Healthcare
Javier Fernandez
Biocapital Advisors
Pablo Fernandez
Cantabria Labs
Luis Julián Fernández-Vera
Eduardo Fraile
Comunidad de Madrid
Lisa Freed
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lars Frølund
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Berta Martí Fuster
Oncokids Biosciences/ Richi Childhood Cancer Foundation
Stephan Gaehde
VA Boston
Al Galaburda
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Andres Garces Asado
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Roberto Garcia Alavarez
GE
Jesus Garcia-Donas
Centro Integral Oncologico Clara Campal
Michael Gee
Massachusetts General Hospital
Arnold B Gelb
Ziopharm Oncology
Dimitra Georganopoulou
Roozbeh Ghaffari
Northwestern University
Victoria Goldberg
Karen Golmer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ignacio Gomez
Maria Dolores Gomez Fidalgo
CIEMAT
Juan Jose Gomez Valverde
Marisa Garcia Gonzalez
Ellen Grant
Children's Hospital Boston
Martha Gray
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ali Guermazi
VA Health Care Systems
Peter Hansen
Union Biometrica Technology Holdings
Steve Haraguchi
MIT Innovation Initiative
Tim Harper
Cientifica
Thomas Heldt
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Juan Hernández-Tamames
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Gonzalo Herradón
Universitaria San Pablo CEU
Manuel Hidalgo
CNIO
Arthur Hiller
Nuritas
Mary Hochman
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Jacob Hooker
Harvard Medical School
Luis Jesus Jimenez
Balla Jozsef
Lilla Jutkusz
University of Debrecen
Beth Kahn
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kevin King
Massachusetts General Hospital
Felix Kluge
Petra Krauledat
PNP Research Corporation
Wolfgang Krull
Kessco
Zvi Ladin
Boston Medtech Advisors
Angel Lanuza
Spanish Trade Association of Medical Devices
Stan Lapidus
Lapidx Research
Maria J. Ledesma Carbayo
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Andy Levine
Conformal Medical
Doug Levinson
Lake Street Enterprise
Nancy Levy
Biohealth Management
Ignacio Lizosain
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Cristina Lois, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
César López
Comunidad de Madrid
Aitziber Lopez Cortajarena
IMDEA
María Luaces Méndez
Hospital Clínico San Carlos
Ana Magaz
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Javier Maira
CSIC
Maulik Majmudar
Partners Healthcare
Wasim Malik Massachusetts General Hospital
Norberto Malpica
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Baltasar Fernández Manjon
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Susana Marcos
CSIC / BIOBIO
Ivan Marquez Rodas
Merce Feu Marti
Richi Entrepreneurs
Enrique Bustos Martin
CSIC
Maria del Mar López Martin
Oscar Martínez Graullera
Mario Martínez-Galdámez
University Clinic Hospital of Valladolid
Oscar Martínez Graullera
CAEND CSIC-UPM
Julio Mayol
Hospital Clínico San Carlos
Javier Fernandez
Vitro
Isabela del Alcazar
Biocapital Advisors
Ellen McCarthy
Harvard Medical School
Pedro Rato Mendes
Ciemat
Jelena Mirkovic
Partners Healthcare
Richard (Rick) Mitchell
Harvard Medical School
Rick Modi
Catabasis Pharmaceuticals
Steve Moore
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Rida Mourtada
Aileron Therapeutics
Francisca (Paqui) Mulero
Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO)
Bernardino Munoz
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Sergio Muñoz Lezcano
Arrate Muñoz-Barrutia
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Fiona Murray
MIT Sloan School of Management
Sergio Muñoz Lezcano
Lita Nelsen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Emily Niederst
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lauren O'Donnell
Harvard Medical School
Alan Packard
Children's Hospital Boston
Timothy Padera
Harvard Medical School
Roberto Palomares
Samuel España Palomares
CNIC
Maria Papp
University of Debrecen
Mi-Ae Park
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Javier Pascau
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Daniel Pascual
Instituto de Optica, CSIC
Etta Pisano
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Andrea Pomerantz
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Alice Pomponio
Red Sky Partners
Kaushik Sunder Rajan
University of Chicago
Chandra Ramanathan
Bayer Healthcare
Matthias Rass
Patrick Reed
Louisiana State University (LSU Health)
Juan Jose Rios Blanco
Hospital Universitario La Paz
Jorge Ripoll Universidad
Carlos III de Madrid
Julian Robinson Partners
Healthcare
Azahara Rodríguez Luna
Cantabria Labs
Santiago Romo-Urroz
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
David Rothkopf
MEDIcept
Jesús Ruiz-Cabello
CNIC
Raul San Jose Estepar
Harvard Medical School
Luisa Lopez Sanchez
Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañon
Ernest Lara Sanchez
Richi Entrepreneurs
Javier Sánchez González
Philips Ibérica
Luis Fernando Sanchez-Barba Mera
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Gloria Sanclimens Pérez de Rozas
Cantabria Labs
Andres Santos
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Angel Santos
CRB Inverbío
Emanuele Schiaivi
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Ignacio Secades
Andy Shin
American Hospital Association
Norman Shizuaki Nishioka
Partners Healthcare
Angelene Simonello
Magenta Therapeutics
Karthik Sivashanker
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Erik Sobel
Toyota Research Institute
Simona Socrate
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marisol Soengas
CNIO
Salil Soman
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Doris Sommer
Harvard University
Shriya Srinivasan
SmartClot
Nancy Steele
Wellness Design & Research
Barry Stein
Hartford Healthcare
Bryan Strange
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Collin Stultz
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Zoltan Szabo
University of Debrecen
Daniel Szemerey
Health Venture Lab (EIT Health/GE Healthcare)
Javier Sánchez González
Philips Ibérica
Zachariah Taylor
Barb Taylor
Portal Instruments
María Teulón-Gonzalez
Hospital de Fuenlabrada.
Frank Thorn
New England College of Optometry
Mehmet Toner
Harvard Medical School
Daniel Torocsik
University of Debrecen
Angel Torrado-Carvajal
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Giovanni Traverso
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jörg Trinkwalter
Medical Valley EMN
Jason Tucker-Schwartz
NinePoint Medical
Roger Tung
Concert Pharmaceuticals Inc
Jessica Tytell
Boston University
Jose Manuel Udias
Iván Uray
University of Debrecen
Ben Vakoc
Massachusetts General Hospital
Juan José Vaquero
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Bonifacio Vega
IMDEA
Fuensantana Vera-Diaz
New England College of Optometry
Tom Vettenburg
Amanda Wagner
Atlas Ventures Newco
Larry Wald
Massachusetts General Hospital
Mary Wallingford
Tufts Medical Center
Tom Wessel
Flex-Pharma
John (Jack) Wixted
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Michael Woonton
Foundation Medicine
Claire Zhao
Philips Research
Expert advisors
José Ignacio Andrés
Janssen Research & Development
Alfonso Antequera
Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada
David Boas
Massachusetts General Hospital
Brett Bouma
Massachusetts General Hospital
Jorge Conde
Knome Inc.
Gabriel Cristobal
Spanish Council for Scientific Research
Jean-Jacques Degroof
MIT Industrial Performance Center
Francisco del Pozo
Center for Biomedical Technology (CTB) - UPM
Manuel Desco Méndez
Universidad Carlos III Madrid
Eduardo Díaz Sánchez
Fundación para el Conocimiento madri+d
Robert (Bob) Edelman
NorthShore University Health System
Georges El Fakhri
Massachusetts General Hospital
Jeffrey Evelhoch
Merck & Co., Inc.
Carlos Gabás
AstraZeneca
Randy Gollub
Massachusetts General Hospital
Ellen Grant
Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School
Mark Griswold
Case Western Reserve University
Rajiv Gupta
Massachusetts General Hospital
Gonzalo Herradón
Universidad CEU-San Pablo
Daphne Holt
Massachusetts General Hospital
Pablo Irarrázaval
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Stanley Lapidus
SynapDx Corporation
Michael Lev
Massachusetts General Hospital
Antonio López
Science & Innovation Link Office (SILO)
Bruno Madore
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Umar Mahmood
Massachusetts General Hospital, Radiology
Isaac Martin Barbero
ICEX
Susana Martín
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)
Tatiana Masarrah
Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón
Wojciech Matusik
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tom C. Meyers
Brown Rudnick LLP
Rudy Mitchell
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ralph Müller
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich (ETH)
Fiona Murray
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Asif Naseem
Mason Wells Private Equity
Robert Padera
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Javier Pascau
Universidad Carlos III Madrid
Iván Pedrosa
University of Texas Southwestern
Charles Peterfy
Spire Sciences, LLC
Jorge Ripoll
Universidad Carlos III Madrid
David Rothkopf
MEDIcept
Jesús Ruiz-Cabello
Universidad Complutense Madrid (Centro Citometra y Microscopa de Fluorescencia)
Frank Rybicki
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Priscilla Slanetz
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Daniel Sodickson
New York University School of Medicine
Gregory Sorensen
Siemens
Scott Stern
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kaushik Sunder Rajan
University of Chicago
Frank Thorn
The New England College (NECO)
Frances Toneguzzo
Massachusetts General Hospital
Antonio Torralba
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bruce Tromberg
University of California, Irvine
José Manuel Udías
Universidad Complutense Madrid (Centro Citometra y Microscopa de Fluorescencia)
Trudy van Houten
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Torunn Yock
Massachusetts General Hospital
Lilla Zollei
Massachusetts General Hospital
Catalyst Fellows
Daniel Abler
Mercy Asiedu
Iliyana Atanasova
Lola Baird
Margaret (Maggie) Bennewitz
Soledad Betanzos-Lara
Vyda Bielkus
Judith Birkenfeld
Aurelien Bourquard
Ian Butterworth
Adrián Valls Carbó
Patricia María Sáez Carlin
Chris Carr
Carlos Castro González
Jon Champagne
Ryan Coe
Nil Sancho Comasòlivas
Susan Conover
Shivang Dave
Mark Drinkwater
Nicholas Durr
Yigitcan Eryaman
David Pastor Escuredo
Osasere Evbuomwan
Berta Martí Fuster
Luca Giancardo
Javier Jimenez Gonzalez
Germán González Serrano
Tobias Hahn
Amy Hanson
Anna Jagielska
Natrina (Trina) Johnson
Ara Kassarjian
Nani Kim
Robert Karl Kosior
Balázs Kunkli
Eduardo Lage
Wencke Lehnert
Johnny Li
Daryl Lim
Bevin Lin
Amy Linsky
Cristina Lois
Joaquín López Herraiz
Jie Luo
Carlos Sanchez Mendoza
Asif Naseem
Malte Ollenschläger
Vicente Parot
László Péter Pusztai
Ravi Rasalingam
Aasia Romano
Álvaro Sánchez-Ferro
Colas Schretter
Luis Rubén Soenksen
Chelsey Solar
Smrithi Sunil
Eric Swart
Arpad Szoor
Laura Bernaéz Timón
Jason Tucker-Schwartz
Esra Abaci Turk
Botond Vitézy
Tarsha Ward
Helena Xicoy
Christine (Wenxin) Zhang
Kai Zhang
IMPACT Fellows
Samuel Abariga
Millan AbiNader
Ahmad Al-Moujahed
Stephen Alkins
Elizabeth Allen
Fernanda Alvarado
Edilberto Amorim
Jingzhi An
Kellen Andrilenas
Shabnam Raayai Ardakani
Natasha Arora
Shoh Asano
Reza Azizian
Coralie Backlund
Christine Beauchene
Alexandra Besser
David Bloore
Amanda Bolgioni-Smith
Mathilde Bonnemaison
Michael Bono
Alexandra Boussommier
Echoe Bouta
Alison Brown
Dustin Brown
Melissa Brown
Jasmina Burek
Ester Caffarel-Salvador
Stacey Cahoon
Philip Camayd-Muñoz
Jonathan Cannon
Oscar Carrasco-Zevallos
Mary Catanese
Chelsea Catania
Tracy Centanni
Fang-Yuan Chang
Saireudee (Gal) Chaturantabut
Ritchie Chen
William Chen
Karen Chenausky
Jessica Chery
Sara Cleto
Tyler Clites
Andres Colubri
Lina Colucci
Derfogail Delcassian
Kaitlyn Dorst
Angela Early
Amira Eltony
Dalit Engelhardt
Mohsen Erfanzadeh
Ahmed Fazly
Mengling Feng
Di Feng
Shiran Ferber
Gabrielle Fleming
Darcy Frear
Mikael Garabedian
Shonda Gaylord
Nava Gharaei
Tyler Gibson
Samantha Giffen
Tonya M Gilbert
Jill Goldstein
Alexander (Lex) Grath
Mykel Green
Jacqueline Greene
Scott H Greenwald
Jessica Gronsbell
Kayla Gross
Sylvia Guillory
Kristen Hahn
Myles Herbert
Frankie Heyward
Erica Hildebrand
Kathryn Hixson
Ally Huang
Maria Eugenia Inda
B. Reeja Jayan
Natrina (Trina) Johnson
Andrew Jones
Dennis Jones
Mandeep Kaur
Matt Kelley
Robert Knoerl
Nikunja Kolluri
Piotr Kowalski
Alexandra Kulinkina
Hsin-Yu Lai
Latrice Landry
Vivian Lee
Dohyun Lee
Wen-Han Lee
Jordan Lewandowski
Emily Lin
Xiaoran Liu
Raphael Lizcano
Alba Luengo
Dominika Lyzwa
Danielle Mai
Tyler Mandt
Vamsi Mangena
Aikaterini (Katerina) Mantzavinou
Hiruy Meharena
Marta Melé messeguer
Walatta (Walatta-Tseyon) Mesquitta
Christina Miyabe
Albert Mondragon
Jill Moore
Tom Morin
Sujatha Muralidharan
Samira Musah
Yuko Nakajima
Collette Ncube
Aracely Newton
Shen Ning
Wen Jie Ong
Rishikesh Pandey
Yongjin Park
Ida Pavlichenko
Hannah Peterson
Nova (Novalia) Pishesha
Pere Dosta Pons
Nuria Puigmal Dominguez
Zhenghan Qi
Bahar Rahsepar
Ritu Raman
Maryna Raskin
Daniel Reker
Maxwell Robinson
Emily Rogers
Angel Rubio
Assieh Saadatpour
Ace Santiago
Niccole Schaible
Sophie Schwartz
Nicolette (Nic) Schwarz
Mohammed Shabab
Jonghyeon Shin
Leila Shokri
Elkhansa Sidamed
Dante Smith
Elizabeth (Liz) Spencer
Shriya Srinivasan
Jocelyn Steinfeld
Lucia Suarez-Lopez
Balaji Karthick Subramanian
Sandya Subramanian
Mao Taketani
Lorilee Tallorin
Kamilya Tazhibayeva
Juliann Tefft
Margaret (Maggie) Thomas
Tory (Victoria) Tobolsky
Morris Vanegas
Claudia Varela
Vivekanand Vimal
Tiffany Vo
Adam Vogel
Andee Wallace
Alex Wang
Tarsha Ward
Kaylee Wells
Kenneth Westerman
Elise Wilcox
Max Winkelman
Yvon Woappi
Renee Wurth
Yushu (Joy) Xie
Amy (EunMee) Yang
Wei Hsi (Ariel) Yeh
Filiz Yetisir
Joseph Zak
Miaomiao Zhang
Zhizhuo Zhang
Vanessa (Ruojie) Zhang
Ali Zomorrodi
IDEA²
Our network
MIT
Champions
Champions provide financial and intellectual support to for specific editions of linQ programs. Selected individuals from Champion organizations may meet with Fellows and project teams, offer comments and subject matter expertise on innovation priorities, and observe and learn about the program method. Current and former Champions include:
Public agencies and foundations
linQ community
Faculty and Advisors hail from many different institutions and sectors, providing the capacity to tap into a deep, diverse, and dynamic network.
