Nafise Masoumi

Senior Associate

2023 - Current

Associate

2020 - 2022

Active in life science investment, early-stage, Series A-C & Public Biotech, MedTech, and Digital Health companies.

Director, Portfolio Strategy and Alliance Management (Neuroscience)

2020 - 2020

Consultant

2018 - 2020

Postdoctoral Associate

2015 - 2018

Point of contact for sponsored research programs and industrial partnership within Langer lab. • Biotechnology: Drug delivery, hydrogel encapsulation & liposome delivery system Developed fabrication techniques, devices & biomaterial synthesis for scaffolds development for regeneration • Project leader/Corporate point of contact: Initiated and managed 3 sponsored research programs ($700K, funding) with biopharmaceutical and industrial partners & collaborators

Research Fellow/Project Manager

2014 - 2018

• Project Manager/Instructor: Regenerative Medicine & Tissue Engineering from bench to bedside Responsible for study development and providing supervision, technical expertise and leadership to support development of novel implantable biomaterials and medical devices • Product Development: Drug release & therapeutic platforms,

VentureLabs Fellow

2017 - 2017

Flagship VentureLabs is the innovation foundry of Flagship Pioneering. This program invites outstanding scientists, engineers and physicians to collaborate under mentor ship of inventors and professionals entrepreneurs within the company, to generate novel ideas with the goal of creating pioneering life science and technology ventures.  Supported the investment team in discovery & due diligence for early stage life-science companies  Idea creation, platform technologies and protocol development

Business Development Intern

2016 - 2016

Business development team- technology transfer, developing commercializing opportunities and project management for industrial partnership.

Affiliate Scientist

2015 - 2016

Project leader- developed a cross platform project to design a tissue engineered heart valve model- synthesis of novel elastomeric polymer, design of an organ level bioreactor and complex fabrication techniques.

Sponsored research staff

2011 - 2013

Scaffolds Fabrication, Layer by Layer Assembly, Biochemical Assays, Polymer Synthesis.

Visiting Scholar/ Data Scientist

2008 - 2009

Energy Metabolism in the Brain. Using clinical data including blood pressure and oxygen level (ABP, CtOx, and O2Hb levels) for regression analysis.

Staff Engineer

2007 - 2008

As a data scientist, i developed a new model using Matab software to study Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Dynamic and to measure Intra-cranial Pressure (ICP), noninvasively in Patients with Hydrocephalus and brain trauma.