Harvard Business School Announces Its 2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the 2023-2024 cohort of Blavatnik Fellows. Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship was launched in 2013 as part of a gift to Harvard University from the Blavatnik Family Foundation. The fellowship offers HBS alumni and Harvard-affiliated postdocs the opportunity to work closely with leading biotech industry and biomedical authorities, receive mentorship, and join a community of entrepreneurs shaping the future of science. To date, Blavatnik Fellows have created 35 companies in biomedical industries, including: a novel enzymatic RNA synthesis platform, an immune system-driven dendritic cell therapy to combat cancer, new molecular technologies for the delivery of transdermal formulations, a lipid-targeting drug to treat cancer and neurodegenerative disorders, and a tumor oxygen sensor for personalized oncology care.  […]

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2022 Most Disruptive MBA Startups: Lime Therapeutics, Harvard Business School

The HBS MBA program provided me with so much: a world-class business education; the ability to bounce ideas off professors and other life sciences practitioners in the Harvard community; a world-class student and alumni network full of depth and breadth; and continual inspiration by the people around me. In addition, being in the MBA program qualified me to earn the Harvard Blavatnik Fellowship. This fellowship, now in its ninth cohort, is an incredible one-year program for Harvard MBAs and post-doctoral students seeking to build bold solutions to healthcare and life sciences challenges. It provides a founder’s salary and some company funding, but most importantly, access to a large and diverse network of biotech executives. Intangibly, the fellowship provides the confidence boost required to take chances at an early-stage life sciences startup. […]

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