Microbiomic health and related performance innovations that are transforming the NBA have tremendous growth potential in the consumer wellness market. Join Mintz and early stage venture firm Builders VC for an insider's peek into the latest research and technologies elite athletes use to reach top performance. We will also explore how the same cutting-edge tools can be utilized to enhance performance for business athletes.
Builders VC General Partner Dr. Amit Mehta will lead the discussion, drawing on his medical background and his firm's successful track record of helping entrepreneurs modernize health care and other essential industries. Jonathan Scheiman, co-founder and chief executive officer of FitBiomics Inc., will share insights from his work in a synthetic biology laboratory during his time as a Harvard Medical School research fellow and his experiences with coaching and playing basketball
When
Thursday, April 1, 2021
12:00 - 1:00 pm ET // 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CT // 9:00 - 10:00 am
PT
This is an online event.
Moderator
- Dr. Amit Mehta
General Partner, Builders VC
Dr. Amit Mehta is a General Partner at Builders VC. He is also a founder and the Chief Medical Officer at Intrinsic Imaging, a leading health care IT company operating clinical trials in 64 countries globally for both pharma and biotech sponsors. Dr. Mehta completed his residency at Harvard Medical School, where he also completed a fellowship in Minimally Invasive Image Guided Surgery.
Speaker
- Jonathan Scheiman, PhD
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, FitBiomics Inc.
Jonathan Scheiman received his PhD in biomedical science from NYU and then a research fellowship at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, at the Harvard Medical School. He has worked on transformative sequencing technologies and programmable cellular engineering and is currently developing next-generation performance probiotics with FitBiomics. Having played Division 1 college basketball at St. John's University and coached inner-city public high school basketball, one of Jonathan's long-term goals is to use sports as a medium to inspire the next generation of scientists.
We hope you'll join us!
