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MASS-AWIS Mentoring Program End Of Year Celebration: Failing Greatly!

Tue, Jun 17

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TMEC Building, Room 250

Join us for an exciting panel discussion on "Failing Greatly" and a networking event to celebrate this year's Mentoring Program with fellow mentees and mentors, accompanied by snacks and conversations. Cost: FREE for 2025 Mentoring Program Participant & $15 for Non-Program Participant

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MASS-AWIS Mentoring Program End Of Year Celebration: Failing Greatly!
MASS-AWIS Mentoring Program End Of Year Celebration: Failing Greatly!

Time & Location

Jun 17, 2025, 6:00 PM โ€“ 8:00 PM EDT

TMEC Building, Room 250, Tosteson Medical Education Center, 260 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA

About the event

๐ŸŽ‰ Excitement is in the air! Get ready for our Mentoring Program End of Year Event! ๐ŸŽ‰


Agenda

6:00 PM - Registration, food, and drinks

6:30 PM - Panel Discussion "Failing greatly: How Setbacks Pave the Way to Success" (panelist bios below)

7:30 PM - Networking and Group photo!


Panelist Bios

Jessica Tytell, PhD
Jessica Tytell, PhD

Dr. Jessica Tytell is the Head of Business Discovery, Life Sciences at the Analog Garage, the incubation laboratory of the industry-leading semiconductor company, Analog Devices. Jess directs Analog's vision for developing the next generation of research tools by building new semiconductor technologies that let scientists get new and better data from biological experiments. Previously, she led the Technical Business Development team at Ginkgo Bioworks, where she focused on commercializing Ginkgo technologies across industries. Jess has worked at the interface of academia and industry for nearly two decades. She has led both commercial and technical roles in startup companies, building academic discoveries into platform technologies and successfully taking early-stage discoveries to market. She served as CEO and CSO for Qtection, a COVID-19 company spun out of Harvard Medical School. From within academia, she specialized in reimagining new ways to bring industry perspectives, needs, and collaborations into academic settings. She excels at helping exceptional scientists succeed by maximizing the impact of their innovations outside the lab. This includes serving as the founding executive director for the Biological Design Center at Boston University.ย 

Jess holds a BS in Molecular Biology from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and a PhD in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She has also served as a faculty member for multiple innovation and commercialization programs, including: MIT Impact, IDEA2, and the Institute for Biomedical Entrepreneurship, as well as several multi-center academic grants and collaborations.ย 


Amy Molten, MD
Amy Molten, MD

Dr. Amy Molten is a physician and health technology executive who began her career in the National Health Service Corps, serving structurally marginalized communities as a pediatrician in El Paso, TX, and New Haven, CT. She then moved into inpatient academic medicine at Tufts, where she directed a large community pediatric inpatient program. Interested in the potential of technology to improve public health, she transitioned to the health tech sector, where she led clinical strategy and operations for multiple startups before assuming her current role as Chief Medical Officer at Ladder Health - a platform empowering families in early developmental care.ย 

Blending her experiences in clinical medicine, community healthcare, health technology, applied consumer health informatics, and social innovation, she is a staunch advocate for ethics, equity, and data quality for responsible health technology development to improve the health of diverse populations at scale. Currently, she is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Tufts, teaching residents and medical students in their Pediatric Primary Care Clinic; Chair of the Section on Advances in Therapeutics & Technology (SOATT) at the American Academy of Pediatrics; serves on two nonprofit boards; and is a mentor for early-stage companies working to build meaningful health technology tools.


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