MANAGING FELLOWS The Managing Fellows are a group of students from different schools and departments at UC Berkeley and UCSF. They manage VIP and facilitate interactions between teams and mentors. Patrick Goodwill Patrick Goodwill is a 4th year PhD student in the UCSF/UCB Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering. At UCB, he is developing a new imaging modality, Magnetic Particle Imaging, which looks to be 100x more sensitive than MRI at detecting and localizing magnetic particles. In 2007, he won the Berkeley Business Plan Competition and placed in the Technology Breakthroughs Competition. He is funded by a California Institute for Regenerative Medicine fellowship and a UC Berkeley graduate fellowship. Patrick hold a B.S. and M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and also designed and debugged microprocessors at Intel Corporation in Santa Clara for 3.5 years. Paula Keebler Paula is a dual MBA / MPH candidate at UC Berkeley and will graduate December 2010. Before returning to graduate school Paula worked at Gilead Sciences in Financial Planning & Analysis, where she managed the budgeting and financial planning processes for the Cardiovascular R&D Therapeutic Area. Prior to Gilead, Paula worked for several years at Ernst & Young, providing assurance services to Genentech and additional public and venture-backed clients in the life science, nanotechnology, and semiconductor industries. Paula holds a B.A. in Business Economics from UCLA and a M.S. of Accountancy from the University of Notre Dame. Adam Mendelsohn Adam is a PhD candidate at the UC San Francisco/UC Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, class of 2010. In his first summer pursuing his PhD in 2006, Adam was awarded an NSF fellowship to research in Japan with Kyoto University’s Department of Drug Delivery Research. Upon returning from Japan, Adam joined the Therapeutic Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory at UCSF headed by Professor Tejal A. Desai, where he is currently researching new treatment options for Type I diabetes through the immunoisolated transplantation of insulin-producing cells. Also during his second year in the PhD program, Adam joined Venture Innovation Program (VIP) in Life Sciences as a fellow. Prior to graduate school, Adam spent two years with Advanced Bionics, a Boston Scientific Company, where he successfully developed a piezoresistive pressure sensor and an overfill safety valve that became part of an implantable drug delivery pump. Adam holds a B.S. in Physics and a B.A. in Music – Piano Performance from UCLA, where he also co-founded a co-ed professional business fraternity, Alpha Kappa Psi. Adam is the founder and CEO of a startup drug delivery technology company, Nano Precision Medical, Inc. This venture won and placed in numerous domestic and international business plan competitions, including: 1st Place in the UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition (2008), 1st Place in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Business Plan Competition (2009), Winner of the UC Berkeley Venture Lab Prize (2008), and 2nd Place in the ASME Innovator Showcase in Boston (2008). Fiona Miller Fiona is a 2010 MBA candidate. Before attending Haas, Fiona was a Commercial Manager at WaikatoLink Limited, Hamilton, New Zealand, where she was responsible for developing licensing, joint venture and spin-off company opportunities for technologies developed by researchers at the University of Waikato. Fiona began her career in agricultural biotechnology research, working at Massey University and then Livestock Improvement Corporation, where she implemented a major bovine gene discovery program. She then moved into management and commercial strategy roles at AgResearch Limited, an agricultural life sciences company, before transitioning to WaikatoLink. Fiona holds a BSc in molecular genetics and biochemistry and a BApplSc (Hons) in animal science from Massey University, New Zealand. Michael Motion
Michael Motion is a PhD candidate at the UC San Francisco/UC Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering. Prior to graduate school, Michael was a quantitative analyst for Ziff Brothers Investment where he managed risk strategies. Michael has been involved in a number of entrepreneurship activities at UCSF and UCB, including the HASS Biofellowship, as well as during his undergraduate at MIT. Michael has served as a consultant to several biomedical and bioengineering startups focused on cardiovascular therapies, biomaterials and synthetic biology. He is currently working on drug delivery technologies for oncology, and has been previously involved on developing synthetic scaffolds for pathway regulation of isoprenoids, and on self-assembling peptides for cardiac regeneration. His research interests include drug delivery, regenerative medicine, and alternative energies. Michael holds a B.S and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Click here to contact Michael.
Jason Park
Jason is a dual-degree MD/PhD candidate in the NIH-sponsored Medical Scientist Training Program - pursuing his M.D. at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine and his Ph.D. in the UCSF / UC Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering. He believes strongly in the importance of bringing people together in science, business, and medicine to develop biomedical innovations that can make a positive impact on human health. Jason holds an M.Eng. in Biomedical Engineering from MIT, where he did his thesis research in the field of gene synthesis technology. He is second author on a publication on protein-mediated error correction for gene synthesis, with other manuscripts in the process of being written and submitted. His current research interests are varied. Jason also holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering / Biology from MIT. Click here to contact Jason. Shauli Raz Shauli is a first-year MBA candidate in the Haas School of business, class of 2010. Prior to Hass he was working as a medical device startup consultant, focusing mainly on vascular devices. Shauli was responsible for the company's due-diligence process, business-plan and fundraising advising and clinical studies. Shauli holds a Master degree in Biotechnology Engineering from Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Vivek Sharma Vivek is a first year EWMBA student at Haas Business School and works full time for a medical device startup in Palo Alto, CA. Vivek has more than five years of product design and program management experience in the medical device field and has worked for St. Jude Medical and Boston Scientific. Vivek is interested in entrepreneurship opportunities in the health care sector and holds a Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech.) degree from ITT Bombay, India and MS degree in Engineering from Stanford University. Kelly Karns Kelly Karns is a Ph.D. student in the UC San Francisco/UC Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, class of 2013. Her research focuses on point-of-care diagnostics and the development of electrophoretic microfluidic systems that allow for rapid, analytical quantification of disease-specific biomarkers. She is funded through the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Kelly also holds an MPhil in bioscience enterprise from the University of Cambridge in the UK where she studied on a Gates Scholarship and a B.S. in biomedical and mechanical engineering from Yale University. In 2007, Kelly co-founded AutoTB, a start-up company that is developing an innovative diagnostic test for tuberculosis for use in developing countries, and has successfully competed in several international business plan competitions. Click here to contact Kelly. Craig Hashi, Ph.D.
Craig Hashi, Ph.D. is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of NanoVasc, Inc., a medical device company focused on treating arterial disease. He successfully raised a Series A Round of $6.25M from two Venture Capital firms: MedVenture Associates and Burrill and Co. He is also the Principal Investigator for a $1.5M NIH SBIR grant. Craig is currently enrolled at the Haas School of Business; prior to that, he received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from UCSF/UC Berkeley (CIRM Fellow and Lloyd Distinguished Fellow) and holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA. During his graduate career, he competed and found success in several business plan competitions: 1st Place at the 2007 UCSF Global Life Science Business Plan Competition, 1st Place at the 2006 National Inventors Hall of Fame, Collegiate Inventors Competition, and 1st Place at the 2006 National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance BME IDEA Business Plan Competition. Tanay Dudhela
Tanay Dudhela is a MBA student at the University of California Berkeley Haas School. He is the vice-president of membership for the Berkeley Entrepreneur's Association and is committed to strengthening the relationship between the Berkeley entrepreneurial community and the biomedical community in the Bay Area. Tanay spent two summers during this undergraduate studies researching the regulation of the tumor suppression gene p53 at Genentech. Prior to business school Tanay spent three years working in healthcare consulting. He also holds a bachelors degree in molecular biology and genetics from Northwestern University. |
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