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

Course Trailer

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

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

Chief Medical Officer, Everly Health

Ken Zolot

Entrepreneur & Investor, Meach Cove Capital Massachusetts Institute of Technology

TWO DAY AGENDA INCLUDES THE BELOW SESSIONS AND MORE

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

Sendhil Mullainathan (MacArthur Genius, MIT Professor) - Tools of Thought: Building Algorithms that Enhance Human Capacity
Harvard Business School Live Case Study – Founder Negotiations, Challenges, and More
Fundamentals of Inventions, Intellectual Property, and More
PANEL: Healthcare Outside the Hospital - Remote Care, Hospital at Home, and More
Ken Zolot (Investor, Serial Entrepreneur, MIT) – Questions a Successful Entrepreneur Asks
Crafting Your Startup Pitch – Best Practices for Scalable Success
Key Components of Venture Funding and Scaling Your Company
PANEL: Investing in the Future of Healthcare Innovation - Perspectives from Venture
Isaac Kohane (Chair of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard) – Ignore the AI Revolution at the Peril of Patients, Providers
PANEL: The AI-Enabled Future of Healthcare
Toolkit of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Digital Health in an Evolving Healthcare Landscape
Liz Kwo (Chief Medical Officer, Everly Health) – Unlocking the Future of Personalized Medicine in an Equitable Way
PANEL: Transforming Care in a Resource Limited Era
Rewriting the Code of Life: Revolutionizing Medicine with Gene and Cell Therapy
Startup Pitch Competition for the $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: Dec 15, 2024

Tickets

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

General Admission

Early bird rate (limited tickets)

$699.99
$349

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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