Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy Selected for Northwestern's Inaugural Cohort of FoundHer Fellowship
July 24, 2023
Neurobiology's Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy was selected as a Faculty innovator to benefit from the InQbation Lab initiative, which looks to create more women entrepreneurs.
"In June, Northwestern's inaugural FoundHer Fellows cohort traveled to Boston for two days of meetings with more than a dozen top venture capital firms. Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy (neurobiology), Julie Kim (obstetrics and gynecology) and Ruchi Gupta (pediatrics) were the trailblazing faculty members participating in the initiative, which aims to cultivate first-time women academic entrepreneurs and connect them with the mentors, skills and networks to succeed in bringing their research-based intellectual property to market. Northwestern's Querrey InQbation Lab, overseen by the Innovation and New Ventures Office (INVO), launched the FoundHer program in 2022. The annual fellowship includes professional development and pitch presentation coaching. Participants in the Boston visit were accompanied by their mentors and met with VCs from firms such as Atlas Venture, Novartis, 5AM Ventures, RA Capital Management, Johnson & Johnson, and more."
Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy, Alexandra de Paz (associate director, INVO), Michelle Burbea Hoffmann (program mentor and executive director, Chicago Biomedical Consortium), Michal Preminger (regional head of Johnson & Johnson Innovation, East N.A.), Julie Kim, Ruchi Gupta, Dimitra Georganopoulou (mentor, adjunct professor, McCormick School; general partner, Qral Ventures), Lilli Zakarija (mentor and adjunct lecturer, McCormick School; president of EdgeOne Medical), Alexander Jones (global sourcing project manager, Johnson & Johnson)