Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship

 

The Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship offers Harvard Business School (HBS) alumni and Harvard-affiliated postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to advance new ventures around promising life science technologies and develop their leadership talents during a 12-month fellowship year. This unique opportunity allows fellows to work closely with the leading biotech industry and biomedical authorities, receive programmatic guidance and mentorship, and join a community of life science entrepreneurs.

Since 2013, 40 fellows completed the program, created 35 science-based businesses, and raised more than $500M in collective funding. This amount excludes a successful IPO by an alumnus of the fellowship program in June 2020 that raised $244M. The eleventh cohort—consisting of five Blavatnik Fellows—started in July 2023.

Photo of the five newest Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship
The 2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows (L-R): Patrick Emedom-Nnamdi, Luca Giani, Simin Lee, Morgan Moncada, Nuria Puigmal Dominguez.

Learn about the 2023–24 Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship

Peter Barrett guides the fellowship as faculty chair, while also serving as a senior lecturer and a partner at Atlas Venture. Members of the Key Advisory Board are leading industry and biomedical authorities. They provide programmatic guidance as well as one-on-one mentorship to the fellows. Supporting Blavatnik fellows in their pursuit of successful enterprise creation, the program provides practical materials for entrepreneurship—time, working space, operating funds— with access to strategic resources—mentorship, networking, and workshops with industry experts. Companies started by Blavatnik Fellows span innovative life science categories including vision and hearing impairment, women’s health, aging, sports medicine, diagnostics, neuroscience, and health care access.