Mass General Brigham Presents

MESH Core 2025

Official Healthcare Innovation Bootcamp

MESH Core is the official, award-winning Innovation course of Mass General Brigham, the #1 healthcare innovation hospital in the world.*OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

May 12-13, 2025
Assembly Row, Somerville, MA
399 Revolution Dr.

Our two-day intensive, in-person, hands-on healthcare innovation course in the mecca of biomedical innovation - greater Boston - is designed on decades of cutting-edge innovation on the fringes.Suitable for startups, physicians, researchers, investors, allied health professionals, MBAs, students, executives, and the public. A combination of lectures, hands-on cases, extensive networking, lively panels, and startup pitch sessions.Now offering CME credits for physicians.Chief Innovation Officer: Chris Coburn
Course Director: Marc Succi, MD

Learn, Network, Collaborate

Unmatched Access

MESH Core offers the official MGB healthcare innovation education course over two days, with extensive networking opportunities for physicians, trainees, allied healthcare professionals, startups, executives, and the public.All registrants receive complimentary 1-year access to the MGB Innovation MESH Network, an invite-only private online platform with over 2,500 MGB and Harvard faculty registered in a searchable database, with messaging ability. Includes access to ongoing MGB Innovation Grand Rounds.

Keynote Speakers & Faculty

Subject to Change

Chris Coburn

Chief Innovation Officer, Mass General Brigham

Sendhil Mullainathan, PhD

Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD

Chair of Biomedical Informatics; Professor, Harvard Medical School

Liz Kwo, MD, MBA, MPH

Chief Commercial Officer, Everly Health

Niyum Gandhi

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, Mass General Brigham

O’Neil Britton, MD

Chief Integration Officer and Executive Vice President, Mass General Brigham

Adam Landman, MD

Chief Information Officer, Mass General Brigham

Katie Coffman, PhD

Piramal Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business
School

Roger Kitterman, MBA

Co-founder and Managing Partner, Mass General Brigham Ventures; Senior Vice President, Mass General Brigham

Amir Nashat, PhD, MSc

Managing Partner, Polaris Partners

Jean-François Formela, MD, MBA

Partner, Atlas Venture

Deborah Palestrant, PhD, MBA

Partner, 5AM Ventures and Executive Chair, 4:59 Initiative

Jigar Raythatha, MBA

Partner, Third Rock Ventures

Mike Freni, MBA

Vice President of Business Development, Mass General Brigham

Robert Fields, MD, MHA

Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer, Beth Israel Lahey Health

Chemu Langat, MBA

Chief Operating Officer, Best Buy Health

Maren Batalden, MD, MPH

Chief Quality Officer, Cambridge Health Alliance

Kathy Andriole, PhD

Director of Academic Research and Education, Mass General Brigham AI

Aki Al-Zubaidi, DO

Chief Executive Officer, Eon

Christopher Lee, PhD

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Fourier Health

Meredith Fisher, PhD

Partner, Mass General Brigham Ventures

Heather O’Sullivan, MS, APRN

President and Chief Operating Officer of Healthcare at Home, Mass General Brigham

Stephen Dorner, MD, MPH, MSc

Chief Clinical and Innovation Officer, Healthcare at Home, Mass General Brigham

Georgios Varsos, PhD, MBA

Senior Manager, Business Development and Licensing, Mass General Brigham Innovation

Gerald Hefferman, MD

Neuroradiologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Alex Hoopes, PharmD

General Manager, Cardinal Health Velocare

Angela Shen, MD, MBA

Vice President, Mass General Brigham; Head of Regulatory, MGB Gene and Cell Therapy Institute

Karen Nanji, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Anaesthesia, Mass General Hospital

James Stanford, MBA

Partner, Managing Director, Fitzroy Health

Marc Succi, MD

Founder & Executive Director, MESH Incubator; Course Director, MESH Core, Mass General Brigham

AGENDA

Registration 8:00 - 8:45 AM each day. 9:00 AM start time
Networking Receptions Both Evenings

Day 1: May 12, 2025

9:00 - 9:05 AM | MESH Core 2025 Welcome & Keynote Introduction | Chris Coburn, Marc Succi, MD
9:05 - 9:55 AM | Keynote: Unlocking the Future of Personalized Medicine in an Equitable Way | Liz Kwo, MD
10:00 - 10:45 AM | Digital Health in an Evolving Healthcare Landscape
10:45 - 11:00 AM | Break
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Panel: Transforming Care in a Resource-Limited Era
12:00 - 12:40 PM | Lunch
12:00 - 12:40PM | Limited Capacity Breakout: Wrangle Your Data for Building ML Models
12:00 - 12:40PM | Limited Capacity Breakout: Real-World Intellectual Property Case Study
12:40 - 1:40 PM | Panel: The AI-Enabled Future of Medicine
1:40 - 2:30 PM | Toolkit of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
2:30 - 2:45 PM | Break
2:45 - 3:30 PM | Key Components of Venture Funding & Scaling Your Company
3:35 - 4:25 PM | Keynote: Tools of Thought: Building Algorithms That Enhance Human Capacity | Sendhil Mullainathan, PhD
4:30 - 5:20 PM | MGB MESH Disruptive Innovation Prize Pitch Sessions
5:20 - 5:30 PM | Closing Remarks
5:30 – 7:30 PM | Networking Reception (MGB Headquarters)

Day 2: May 13, 2025

7:30 - 8:30AM | Limited Capacity Breakout: Build your Own Startup
7:30 - 8:30AM | Limited Capacity Breakout: Rx for Innovation: Hands-On Design Thinking in Healthcare
9:00 - 9:05 AM | Day 2 Welcome & Keynote Introduction
9:05 - 9:55 AM | Ignore the AI Revolution at the Peril of Patients & Providers | Issac Kohane, MD, PhD
10:00 - 11:15 AM | Harvard Business School Case Study: Negotiating Equity Splits | Katie Coffman, PhD
11:20 - 11:50 AM | Introduction to Patents & Licensing
11:50 AM - 12:20 PM | Lunch12:20 - 12:30 PM | MGB MESH Disruptive Innovation Prize Announcement
12:30 - 1:30 PM | Panel: Investing in the Future of Healthcare Innovation – Perspectives from Venture Investors
1:30 - 1:45 PM | Break
1:45 - 2:45 PM | Panel: Care Outside the Hospital
2:50 - 3:35 PM | Rewriting the Code of Life: Revolutionizing Medicine with Gene & Cell Therapy
3:35 - 3:45 PM | Break
3:45 - 4:30 PM | Crafting Your Startup Pitch – Best Practices for Scalable Success
4:30 - 5:20 PM | Questions a Successful Entrepreneur Asks | Ken Zolot
5:20 - 5:30 PM | Closing Remarks
5:30 – 7:30 PM | Closing Networking Reception (MGH Bulfinch Tent - 55 Fruit St)
Also:
$5000 MGB MESH Disruptive Innovation Prize - Judged by Investors and MGB Innovation
Networking Receptions Both Evenings

Present your work to key collaborators

Submit a Startup Pitch

The Startup Sessions will feature cutting-edge innovations from three categories:-Emerging Healthcare Innovations
-Established Healthcare Innovations
-Commercially-Funded Healthcare Innovations
All are welcome to submit - including students, researchers, physicians, health professionals, startups, industry.Deadline: CLOSED

Tickets

For sponsorship options (tax-deductible), including student travel grants, please view our sponsor packet here.

General Admission

Late Registration

$799.99

Includes:
-Full course attendance, course packet
-Access to all course networking events
-Morning coffee and lunch both days
-Complimentary 1-year access to the MGB Innovation MESH Network ("Private Innovator LinkedIn" - www.innovationmeshnetwork.org)
-Ongoing access to live MGB Innovation Grand Rounds live virtual seminars, at no cost

Directions

The course is located at 399 Revolution Drive in Somerville, MA. It will be held in the West Lobby Building.
Enter the West Lobby and immediately on your left will be registration.
The MBTA Assembly Row Orange Line Subway stop is directly adjacent to the building, and is the easiest way to get there.Several parking garages and lots are also adjacent. Parking rates for the Mass General Brigham garage are posted here: https://www.assemblyparking.com/where-to-park/partners-garage/ . Unfortunately there is no attendee discount.There are numerous fast, casual and upscale food options directly adjacent to the course building, and plenty of shopping.A hotel list will be sent closer to the date.

* According to the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) FY2023 Annual US Licensing Survey

Organizing team

Chris Coburn
Chief Innovation Officer, Mass General Brigham
Anu Gupte
Project Lead, Innovator Growth Division
Diana Schwartzstein
Vice President, Co-Director, MGB Innovator Growth Division
Casey Frazier
Communications and Digital Marketing Manager, Innovation
Peter Choi
Managing Director, MESH Incubator
Marc Succi, MD
Course Director
MESH Incubator Founder & Executive Director, Co-Director, MGB Innovator Growth Division, Radiologist and Faculty at Harvard Medical School

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