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Christopher F. Dippel – Affiliate Consultant linked-in profile

cdippel@firstfounders.org

     Chris is a self-employed consultant in strategy and business development for technology-based companies and not-for-profit organizations developing innovative products for theUS and global healthcare markets. 

     Currently, he is a principal of First Founders, Ltd., a non-profit venture that is accelerating the growth of technology-based companies through access to the experience of senior managers and serial entrepreneurs, and a mentor in MIT’s Venture Mentoring Service.  Recently, he was a mentor for NIH’s Commercialization Assistance Program, an advisor to Seeding Labs, LLC, a Cambridge-based non-profit with a mission of providing high-quality research equipment to scientists in the developing world, and an associate director for the MIT/Harvard graduate course, HST 939 Technology for Global Health Practice.  His consulting clients include the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (White Plains,NY), Dragonfly Sciences, Inc. (Wellesley,MA), Aurora Nova, LLC (Topsfield,MA), and Advanced Technology Management, Inc. (Cambridge, MA).  

     Chris’s eight years in the biotech/pharma industry includes positions in business development and alliance management for Modular Genetics, Inc. (Cambridge, MA), GlycoFi, Inc. (Lebanon, NH), and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals (Cambridge,MA).  Chris has also worked for more than ten years in licensing and program management in academia as Director, Technology Transfer, New England Medical Center; Senior Technology Transfer Officer, Boston Children’s Hospital; Project Manager, Office of Technology Licensing and Industry-Sponsored Research, Harvard Medical School; and Senior Officer, Industrial Liaison Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He holds an undergraduate degree in biology from MIT and graduate degrees in physiology from the Universities of Kansas and Idaho.