Gini Deshpande

Biography

 Gini has over ten years of experience incubating, developing, and commercializing life sciences technologies to enable scientific innovations to reach patients. As a consultant to startups, she has enabled two companies to raise their initial rounds of financing. At Affymetrix, she was responsible for strategic marketing for their Academic Research Business Unit, dealing with their largest customer segment. Prior to that, she was Director of an early-stage business unit at Children’s Hospital Boston, where she secured $2.5 M in grant funding and enabled prototype development for six medical device products. She has also managed broad, diverse IP portfolios and closed academic licensing deals worth over $10M. Gini has co-authored numerous papers on NuMedii’s core technology. She received her PhD in Biological Sciences from Purdue University and did post-doctoral work at Harvard Medical School.

Research Interest

Healthcare