The Biolocity Oversight Committee serves as both an advisory council and decision-making board to select funded projects. The committee consists of clinical, industry, regulatory, investment, and entrepreneurial veterans with relevant technology and medical expertise, along with partner university technology transfer advisers.
Mary Albertson, CLP, RTTPDirector of Technology Licensing at Georgia Tech Research Corporation
Kirk Barnes, BA
Co-Founder and President of Start-Up Commercialization and Sales Training of TransPharMed
Ibraheem Badejo, PhD
Senior R&D Director, Ethicon External Front End Innovation at Johnson & Johnson
Mark Boden, PhD
Senior Fellow/Technology Scout, Boston Scientific Corporation
Mark Colonnese, MBA
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Covanos, Inc.
Monte Eaves, MD
Director, American Board of Plastic Surgery and Founder & CEO, Brijjit Co, LLC
Andrés J. García, PhD
Executive Director, Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience
Lee Herron, DVM
Vice President of Commercialization, Georgia Research Alliance
Michelle Ho, PhD
Senior Associate, 5AM Ventures
Derek Mazur, MSc
Private Company Investor, Cedar Pine
Rifat Pamukcu, MD
President & CEO, Midway Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Alyssa Panitch, PhD
Professor and Chair of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Shyam Parekh, PhD, MBA
Director, Strategy and Business Development, Avanos Medical
Jay Parrish, PhD
Venture Partner, Arch Ventures
Preetha Ram, PhD
Sr. Managing Partner, Pier 70
Todd Sherer, PhD
Associate VP for Research Administration & Executive Director, Office of Technology Transfer, Emory University
Robert Taylor, MD
Professor of Medicine, Director, Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine
Robert Towarnicki, MS
Managing Partner, New Hope BioConsulting LLC and CEO, SIRPant Immunotherapeutics
David Wright, MD
Associate Professor and Director, Emergency Neurosciences at Emory University School of Medicine
Bob Yoder, MBA
Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer, Trevena, Inc.
Ajit Yoganathan, PhD
Regents’ Professor Emeritus, Wallace H. Coulter School of Biomedical Engineering