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• Anergent Pharmaceuticals, Inc. – Bruce Cohen (HBS MBA 1982) – Anergent has developed a novel way of delivering drugs via the buccal mucosa (inner surface of cheek and gums) with performance characteristics consistent with injection for use with people who require urgent medication and are partly of fully incapacitated due to age or illness.

• Brainify.AI – Mariam Khayretdinova (HES 2022) & Ivan Mishanin (HBS 2024) – Brainify.AI is a precision psychiatry platform that leverages AI and ML to revolutionize antidepressant development. Designed to analyze EEG data, it predicts patients’ treatment outcomes before the treatment begins. The platform’s ability to identify placebo responders and non-responders mitigates the risk of high placebo responses in late-stage clinical trials, thereby increasing trial success rates. Additionally, Brainify.AI detects specific biomarkers to determine which patients will most benefit from a drug. This not only improves outcomes in critical Phase III trials and enhances drug efficacy but also positions the platform as a companion diagnostic, paving the way for novel antidepressants to become first-line treatments. 

• Joyous PBC – Zack Rinat (HBS 1990) – AI powered digital platform that empowers patients to take charge of their mental health. Our integrated treatment provides an accessible, affordable and efficacious direct to patient (DTP) solution.

• KiraGen Bio – Aaron Edwards (HBS/GSAS 2024) – KiraGen pioneers solid tumor CAR-T cells engineered to resist the suppressive tumor microenvironment (TME). Our ML platform selects optimized gene edit combos for TME resilience. Led by CGT & GE experts, we aim to redefine care for the 90% of cancers underserved by CAR-T.

• SOAP Health – Steven Charlap (HBS 1988) – 100+ million Americans don’t have access to a primary care provider and 60 million more have high deductible plans. SOAP Health offers the World’s First AI Powered Primary Care Provider™ to provide equitable, 24/7, high quality and low cost on-line primary care.

• Vocadian – Yujie Wang (SEAS MDE ’24) – Vocadian is a Harvard-MIT-founded health tech venture building groundbreaking predictive fatigue management to empower safer, healthier & more productive workforce with voice AI. We target high-stakes, safety-sensitive industries, such as transportation and logistics, mining, construction, aviation & healthcare.

• Joe Montrosse (MBA 2005) – Managing Director, CREO

• Michael Reslinski (MBA 2018) – Principal – Healthcare and Life Sciences, Sixth Street

• James Sherman (MBA 1991) – Serial Internet Entrepreneur, Angel Investor & Author

• Pooja Solanki (MBA 2011) – Senior VP, Spend Management Services in IT, Digital Health, and Financial Services

• Claire Wagner (MD/MBA 2020) – Head of Corporate Strategy and Market Access, Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute