
People in linQ hail from many walks of life. The majority of linQers come from the worlds of medicine, science, and business. We welcome any stakeholder in the healthcare arena ready to collaborate across disciplines to accelerate innovation.
Faculty & Mentors
Individuals who commit to participate regularly (weekly, or biweekly) for at 5-12 months (depending on the program) as part of a group mentoring team. See our faculty and mentors
Expert Advisors
Individuals who provide teaching, mentorship, or advice in a one-on-one, committee, or class room setting. See our expert advisors
Program cohorts
At the center of our programs are cohorts of participants drawn from across the biomedical innovation ecosystem. Thought scope and focus of their work varies by program, they share a focus on professional growth and driving impact in health technology.
Clinical Innovators
Clinicians who participates on a part-time basis in one of the immersion programs
Business Interns
Business students or recent graduates who join a team in one of the immersion programs.
Trainees
Non-business students who join a team in one of the immersion programs. Their work may be suitable for a thesis for an advanced degree

Nicolás Alejandre-Alba
Miguel Ángel Morcillo Alonso
Juan Antonio Echenique Angulo
Etchenike & Consultores
Alfonso Antequera
Hospital de Fuenlabrada.
Brian Anthony
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
José Luis Ausin
University of Extremadura
Mercedes Balcells-Camps
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andres Ballesteros
Vivia Biotech
Claudia Barquet
Fundacion MVision
Jorge Bensadon Belicha
Vitro
Pamela Bellino
VA Boston Healthcare System
Fernando Bermejo San Jose
Comunidad de Madrid
Michael Birrer
Partners Healthcare
José Luis Blanco Murillo
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
José Luis Blanco Murillo
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
David Boas
Harvard Medical School
Fernando Valero Bonilla
Blanca Borro
Bank of Spain
Brett Bouma
Massachusetts General Hospital
Lydia Bourouiba
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alan Braly
Silverstone Biosciences
Emery Brown
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peter Bryant
IE Business School
Deb Burstein
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Peter Caravan
Massachusetts General Hospital
José María Carazo
CSIC
Juan Manuel Arco Casanova
Sedecal
Nazareth Perales Castellanos
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Carlos Roberto Jejia Chew
Javier Colas
Medtronic
Leah Cole
Sanofi
Gabriel Cristobal
Instituto de Optica, CSIC
Beatriz Cubeiro
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Lorena Cusso
Hospital General Universitario Gregorio MaraГ±on
Antje Danielson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Heather L. Davidson
VA Boston Healthcare System
Gema de la Poza
Joseph P DeAngelis
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Jason Dearling
Children's Hospital Boston
Michael Dempsey
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daniela Dinulescu
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Carlos Dorronsoro
Instituto de Optica, CSIC
Juan Echevarra
Luis Elvira Segura
CSIC
Bjoern Eskofier
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuernberg
Conor Evans
Massachusetts General Hospital
Georges El Fakhri
Massachusetts General Hospital
Will Febbo
OptimizeRx
Peter Feinstein
BioVentures Investors
Javier Fernandez
Biocapital Advisors
Luis Julián Fernández-Vera
Eduardo Fraile
Comunidad de Madrid
Al Galaburda
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Andres Garces Asado
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Roberto Garcia Alavarez
GE
Jesus Garcia-Donas
Centro Integral Oncologico Clara Campal
Michael Gee PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Arnold B Gelb
Ziopharm Oncology
Roozbeh Ghaffari
Northwestern University
Ignacio Gomez
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Maria Dolores Gomez Fidalgo
CIEMAT
Marisa Garcia Gonzalez
Ellen Grant
Children's Hospital Boston
Martha Gray
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ali Guermazi
Boston Medical Center
Peter Hansen
PNP Research
Tim Harper
Cientifica
Thomas Heldt
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Juan Hernández-Tamames
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Gonzalo Herradón
Universitaria San Pablo CEU
Manuel Hidalgo
CNIO
Arthur Hiller
Antyllus Therapeutics, Inc
Mary Hochman
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Jacob Hooker
Harvard Medical School
Kevin King
University of California - San Diego - School of Medicine
Petra Krauledat
PNP Research
Zvi Ladin
Boston Medtech Advisors
Angel Lanuza
Spanish Trade Association of Medical Devices
Stan Lapidus
LapiDx Research
Maria J. Ledesma Carbayo
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Doug Levinson
Lake Street Enterprise
Ignacio Lizosain
Facultad de Medicina Universidad Complutense de Madrid
César López
Comunidad de Madrid
César López
Comunidad de Madrid
Aitziber Lopez Cortajarena
IMDEA
María Luaces Méndez
Hospital Clínico San Carlos
Ana Magaz
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Javier Maira
CSIC
Maulik Majmudar
Baltasar Fernández Manjon
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Susana Marcos
CSIC / BIOBIO
Ivan Marquez Rodas
Merce Feu Marti
Richi Entrepreneurs
Enrique Bustos Martin
CSIC
Maria del Mar López Martin
Oscar Martínez Graullera
CSIC
Mario Martínez-Galdámez
University Clinic Hospital of Valladolid
Julio Mayol
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Javier Fernandez, MBA
Vitro
Isabela del Alcazar, MBM
Biocapital Advisors
Ellen McCarthy
Harvard Medical School
Jelena Mirkovic
Partners Healthcare
Rick Mitchell
Harvard Medical School
Rick Modi
Catabasis Pharmaceuticals
Steve Moore
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Francisca Paqui Mulero
Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO)
Bernardino Munoz
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Sergio Muñoz Lezcano
Arrate Muñoz-Barrutia
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Lita Nelsen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lauren O’Donnell
Harvard Medical School
Alan Packard
Children's Hospital Boston
Timothy Padera
Harvard Medical School
Roberto Palomares
Samuel España Palomares
CNIC
Mi-Ae Park
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Javier Pascau
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Daniel Pascual
Instituto de Optica, CSIC
Etta Pisano
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Chandra Ramanathan
Bayer Healthcare
Pedro Rato Mendes
CIEMAT
Juan Jose Rios Blanco
Hospital Universitario La Paz
Jorge Ripoll
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Julian Robinson
Partners Healthcare
Santiago Romo-Urroz
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Ricardo Ruiz De España
Merck & Co., Inc.
Jesús Ruiz-Cabello
CNIC
Raul San Jose Estepar
Harvard Medical School
Ernesto Lara Sanchez
Richi Entrepreneurs
Luisa Lopez Sanchez
Hospital General Universitario Gregorio MaraГ±on
Javier Sánchez González
Philips Ibérica
Luis Fernando Sanchez-Barba Mera
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Andres Santos
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Angel Santos
CRB Inverbío
Emanuele Schiaivi
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Ignacio Secades
Norman Shizuaki Nishioka
Partners Healthcare
Angelene Simonello
Flex-Pharma
Karthik Sivashanker
Boston University School of Medicine, VA Boston Healthcare System
Erik Sobel
Toyota Research Institute
Simona Socrate
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marisol Soengas
CNIO
Nancy Steele
Wellness Design & Research
Barry Stein
Hartford Healthcare
Bryan Strange
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Collin Stultz
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Barb Taylor
Portal Instruments
Zachariah Taylor
María Teulón-Gonzalez
Hospital de Fuenlabrada
Frank Thorn
New England College of Optometry
Ron Tompkins
Massachusetts General Hospital
Mehmet Toner
Harvard Medical School
Angel Torrado-Carvajal
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Giovanni Traverso
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Roger Tung
Concert Pharmaceuticals Inc
Jessica Tytell
Boston University
Jose Manuel Udias
Ben Vakoc
Massachusetts General Hospital
Juan José Vaquero
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Bonifacio Vega
IMDEA
Fuensantana Vera-Diaz
New England College of Optometry
Tom Vettenburg
Larry Wald
Massachusetts General Hospital
Tom Wessel
Flex-Pharma
John (Jack) Wixted
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
José Ignacio Andrés
Janssen Research & Development
Alfonso Antequera, FACS
Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada
David Boas
Massachusetts General Hospital
Brett Bouma
Massachusetts General Hospital
Jorge Conde
Knome Inc.
Gabriel Cristobal
Spanish Council for Scientific Research
Jean-Jacques Degroof
MIT Industrial Performance Center
Francisco del Pozo
Center for Biomedical Technology (CTB) - UPM
Manuel Desco Méndez
Universidad Carlos III Madrid
Eduardo Díaz Sánchez
Fundación para el Conocimiento madri+d
Robert (Bob) Edelman
NorthShore University Health System
Georges El Fakhri, DABR
Massachusetts General Hospital
Jeffrey Evelhoch
Merck & Co., Inc.
Carlos Gabás
AstraZeneca
Randy Gollub
Massachusetts General Hospital
Ellen Grant
Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School
Mark Griswold
Case Western Reserve University
Rajiv Gupta
Massachusetts General Hospital
Gonzalo Herradón
Universidad CEU-San Pablo
Daphne Holt
Massachusetts General Hospital
Pablo Irarrázaval
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Stanley Lapidus
SynapDx Corporation
Michael Lev
Massachusetts General Hospital
Antonio López
Science & Innovation Link Office (SILO)
Bruno Madore
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Umar Mahmood
Massachusetts General Hospital, Radiology
Isaac Martin Barbero
ICEX
Susana Martín
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)
Tatiana Masarrah
Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón
Wojciech Matusik
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tom C. Meyers
Brown Rudnick LLP
Rudy Mitchell, EdD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ralph Müller
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich (ETH)
Fiona Murray
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Asif Naseem
Mason Wells Private Equity
Robert Padera
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Javier Pascau
Universidad Carlos III Madrid
Iván Pedrosa
University of Texas Southwestern
Charles Peterfy
Spire Sciences, LLC
Jorge Ripoll
Universidad Carlos III Madrid
David Rothkopf
MEDIcept
Jesús Ruiz-Cabello
Universidad Complutense Madrid (Centro Citometra y Microscopa de Fluorescencia)
Frank Rybicki
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Priscilla Slanetz, MPH
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Daniel Sodickson
New York University School of Medicine
Gregory Sorensen
Siemens
Scott Stern
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kaushik Sunder Rajan
University of Chicago
Frank Thorn
The New England College (NECO)
Frances Toneguzzo
Massachusetts General Hospital
Antonio Torralba
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bruce Tromberg
University of California, Irvine
José Manuel Udías
Universidad Complutense Madrid (Centro Citometra y Microscopa de Fluorescencia)
Trudy van Houten
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Torunn Yock
Massachusetts General Hospital
Lilla Zollei
Massachusetts General Hospital
Catalyst Fellows
Iliyana Atanasova
Margaret (Maggie) Bennewitz
Soledad Betanzos-Lara
Judith Birkenfeld
Aurélien Bourquard
Ian Butterworth
Carlos Castro González
Ryan Coe
Shivang Dave
Nicholas Durr
Yigitcan Eryaman
Osasere Evbuomwan
Luca Giancardo
Germán González Serrano
Tobias Hahn
Javier Jimenez
Ara Kassarjian
Robert Kosior
Eduardo Lage Negro
Wencke Lehnert
Daryl Lim
Bevin Lin
Cristina Lois
Joaquín López Herraiz
Jie Luo
Berta Martí Fuster
Asif Naseem
Vicente Parot
Carlos Sánchez Mendoza
Álvaro Sánchez-Ferro
Luis Rubén Soenksen Martínez
Jason Tucker-Schwartz
Esra Abaci Turk
IMPACT Fellows
Samuel Abariga
Millan AbiNader
Ahmad Al-Moujahed
Stephen Alkins
Edilberto Amorim
Jingzhi An
Kellen Andrilenas
Shabnam Raayai Ardakani
Shoh Asano
David Bloore
Amanda Bolgioni-Smith
Alexandra Boussommier
Echoe Bouta
Alison Brown
Ester Caffarel-Salvador
Philip Camayd-Muñoz
Jonathan Cannon
Mary Catanese
Chelsea Catania
Ritchie Chen
William Chen
Karen Chenausky
Jessica Chery
Tyler Clites
Andres Colubri
Lina Colucci
Angela Early
Amira Eltony
Dalit Engelhardt
Ahmed Fazly
Di Feng
Shiran Ferber
Gabrielle Fleming
Darcy Frear
Mikael Garabedian
Shonda Gaylord
Tyler Gibson
Tonya Gilbert
Jill Goldstein
Scott Greenwald
Jessica Gronsbell
Kayla Gross
Sylvia Guillory
Kristen Hahn
Myles Herbert
Kathryn Hixson
Ally Huang
Maria Inda
Andrew Jones
Dennis Jones
Mandeep Kaur
Matt Kelley
Robert Knoerl
Alexandra Kulinkina
Jasmine Kwasa
Latrice Landry
Vivian Lee
Jordan Lewandowski
Emily Lin
Alba Luengo
Dominika Lyzwa
Danielle Mai
Vamsi Mangena
Aikaterini (Katerina) Mantzavinou
Hiruy Meharena
Marta Melé messeguer
Christina Miyabe
Albert Mondragon
Jill Moore
Sujatha Muralidharan
Samira Musah
Yuko Nakajima
Collette Ncube
Wen Jie Ong
Yongjin Park
Ida Pavlichenko
Hannah Peterson
Zhenghan Qi
Bahar Rahsepar
Ritu Raman
Maryna Raskin
Daniel Reker
Daniel Reynolds
Maxwell Robinson
Assieh Saadatpour
Niccole Schaible
Sophie Schwartz
Mohammed Shabab
Jonghyeon Shin
Leila Shokri
Elkhansa Sidamed
Dante Smith
Shriya Srinivasan
Lucia Suarez-Lopez
Balaji Karthick Subramanian
Mao Taketani
Lorilee Tallorin
Kamilya Tazhibayeva
Morris Vanegas
Vivekanand Vimal
Adam Vogel
Lee Voth-Gaeddert
Andee Wallace
Tarsha Ward
Kenneth Westerman
Yvon Woappi
Renee Wurth
Wei Hsi (Ariel) Yeh
Filiz Yetisir
Joseph Zak
Miaomiao Zhang
Zhizhuo Zhang
Ali Zomorrodi
IDEA² Participants
Since its launch at MIT in 2008 and in Madrid, Spain in 2012, IDEA² has involved hundreds of research teams, project members, and project mentors. Visit the IDEA² Global website for more information, including the recent team descriptions and members.
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