The Biomedical Informatics Entrepreneurs Salon (BIES), which the department cohosts with Harvard University's Office of Technology Development, meets regularly to promote entrepreneurship at the convergence of biology, medicine, and computing. In addition to hearing industry leaders speak, participants will have the chance to look for collaborators, employees, advisors, customers, or investors.

BIES is open to everyone. Tickets are free but limited, and registration is required.

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Upcoming

BIES is on a break for the summer and will resume in the Fall of 2023. Registration for the following dates will be open soon.

Sept 27 – William Lotter, DFCI, in person, Waterhouse Room — REGISTER
Oct 24 – Ann DeWitt, The Engine, in person, Waterhouse Room
Nov 14 – Atul Butte, UCSF, virtual
Dec 12 – TBD


Past

5/18/23

  • Howard Jacob, Abbvie

4/20/23

  • Linda Avey, Precise.ly (Co-founder of 23andMe)

3/21/23

  • Isaac Kohane, interviewed by David Shaywitz

2/15/23

  • Daniel Day, Meta

1/26/23

  • Iris Grossman, Eleven Therapeutics

12/15/22

  • Nigam Shah, Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics), Stanford University; Chief Data Scientist, Stanford Health Care

11/8/22

  • Anne Wojcicki, CEO and Co-Founder, 23andMe

10/6/22

  • Simon MacGibbon, CEO and co-founder, Myia Health

9/8/22

  • Lovina McMurchy, General Partner at Movac Capital and Edmund Hillary Fellow

6/1/22

  • Keith R. Dunleavy, MD, Founder and CEO, Inovalon

4/27/22

  • Vivian S. Lee, President of Health Platforms, Verily Life Sciences; Senior Lecturer, Harvard Medical School

3/24/22

  • Diana Brainard, Chief Executive Officer, AlloVir

2/15/22

  • Tania Simoncelli, VP Science in Society, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

1/19/22

  • Caitlin Donovan, Global Head, Uber Health

12/8/21

  • Kathy Giusti, Founder, Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation

11/17/21

  • Najat S. Khan, Chief Data Science Officer, Janssen R&D Data Sciences; Global Head, Janssen R&D Strategy and Operations, Janssen Research & Development, LLC

10/27/21

  • Michal Preminger, Head of Johnson & Johnson Innovation, East North America

9/23/21

  • Jeremy Howard, Founder and Researcher, fast.ai

2/3/21

  • Sara Choi, Partner, Wing VC

3/24/21

  • Levi Garraway, CMO, Roche and Genentech

4/21/21

  • Stephen Kahane, Exec Advisor and Operating Partner, New Mountain Capital

5/19/21

  • Jini Kim, Co-founder and CEO, Nuna (former product manager at Google Health)

6/16/21

  • Najat Khan, Chief Data Science Officer, Janssen

1/21/21

  • Daphne Zohar, Founder and CEO, PureTech

11/4/20

  • Blake Byers, General Partner, Google Ventures

9/16/20

  • Arnaub Chatterjee, Senior Vice President of Product, Medidata/AcornAI

5/19/20

  • Grant Weller, Vice President of Research & Development, UnitedHealth Group

1/22/20

  • Aaron Abend, Managing Director, Prognosis Data Corp

12/10/19

  • Andy Coravos, Co-founder and CEO, Elektra Labs
    Sofia Warner, Co-founder, Elektra Labs; Internal Medicine physician, MGH

11/6/19

  • Jay Bradner, President, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR)

10/2/19

  • Jamie Heywood, Founder and CEO, Patients Like Me

6/12/19

  • Scott Barclay, Partner, DCVC

5/7/19

  • Michael E. Zalis, Chief, Clinical Solutions and Strategy, One Brave Idea; Radiologist, Massachusetts General Hospital

4/10/19

  • Tom Knight, Founder, Ginkgo Bioworks

3/7/19

  • Krishna Yeshwant, General Partner, GV

2/7/19

  • Kurt Rohloff, Co-Founder, CTO, Duality Technologies;
    Alexander "Sasha" Gusev, Faculty, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School

12/18/18

  • Gail H. Javitt, Member of the Firm, Epstein Becker Green

11/28/18

  • Peter Lee, Corporate Vice President for AI and Research, Microsoft Healthcare, EY Parthenon

9/17/18

  • Kristin Pothier, Global Head of Life Sciences, EY Parthenon

5/3/18

  • Sumita Pennathur, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara

4/17/18

  • John S. Brownstein, Chief Innovation Officer, Boston Children's Hospital; Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School

3/5/18

  • Roman Yelensky, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Gritstone Oncology

11/30/17

  • Lisa Suennen, Managing Director, GE Ventures

10/30/17

  • Dr. David Botstein, Chief Scientific Officer, Calico

9/15/17

  • Rich Gliklich, General Catalyst Ventures, OM1, Inc.

5/24/17

  • Colin Hill, GNS Healthcare

4/26/17

  • Jonathan Bush, athenahealth

3/29/17

  • Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Research

2-22-2017

  • Will Crawford, Vice President of Engineering at Fitbit

1-25-2017

  • D. Levin Brown, MD, MPH; CEO, FleetHealth

11-7-2016

  • David Shaywitz, M.D., Ph.D., CMO, DNAnexus, and Visiting Scientist, Dept. Biomedical Informatics, HMS

9-19-2016

  • David De Graaf, PhD, CEO, Syntimmune

6-16-2016

  • Chris Colbert, MBA, Director of Programming at Harvard i-Lab
  • Dan Gebremedhin MD, MBA, Senior Associate, Flare Capital Partners

5-26-2016

  • Roz Picard, Sc.D., IEEE Fellow, Professor, MIT Media Lab, and founder of Empatica

4-21-2016

  • David Altshuler, M.D., Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Global Research and Chief Scientific Officer, at Vertex
  • Luba Greenwood, JD, Vice President, Global Mergers & Acquisitions and Business Development, at Roche

3-24-2016 Photo Gallery

  • Aman Bhandari, PhD, Executive Director of Data Science & Insights at Merck
  • John Boyce, CEO Exosome Diagnostics, former CEO of GnuBIO