Project Description
MESH INNOVATION TEAMS™ Biodesign Program

MESH Innovation Teams is a collaborative year-long program connecting Mass General Brigham clinicians to engineers, MBA candidates, and entrepreneurs to solve critical clinical problems. Collaborating with Harvard Innovation Labs, candidates will join a MESH Team and obtain real world experience and first-hand exposure to generating healthcare innovations and creating companies in the complex medical environment throughout the academic year. MESH provides team members with access to MGH and Harvard physicians, residents, faculty, experienced entrepreneurs, venture capital networking, and Mass General Brigham Innovation along with formal training courses in healthcare entrepreneurship with the ultimate goal of patenting innovations and/or forming start-up companies.
To date, Innovation Teams has formed 9 companies and submitted produced numerous intellectual property disclosures or patents.
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Email innovationteams@meshincubator.org with any questions.
Year-long Biodesign

Innovation teams is a year-long biodesign program that connects Mass General Brigham physician faculty and residents with the broader Harvard community, including scientists, engineers, and business students to solve front line clinical problems tackled daily by clinicians. In collaboration with the Harvard iLab, MESH has now fielded over 10 teams that have already generated multiple proof of concept prototypes and patent applications. The teams are intended to bring together first time clinicians with entrepreneurs and then after some guidance be able to funnel into the existing entrepreneurship infrastructure at Harvard Innovation labs and the greater Boston ecosystem.


2020-2021 Results: 5 Companies, 25 participants
2020-2021 Teams Program Leadership:
Mo Toure | Managing Director
Claudia Pienica | Project Director
Sawhel Maali | Project Director
Jean Filo | Project Director
Jessica DeVilla | Project Director
Jon Krog | Events Director
Avik Som | IR rep
Graham Lieberman | Surgery Rep
Hilary Gallin | Anesthesia Rep
Greg Leya | Surgery Rep
Marc Succi, MD | Executive Director, MESH Incubator
2019-2020 Results: 4 Companies, 23 participants
2019-2020 Teams Program Leadership:
Mario Russo | Director of Operations
Aseal Birir | Managing Director
Maaz Mulla | Managing Director
Abigail Baldwin | Director of Finance
Avik Som | IR rep
Graham Lieberman | Surgery Rep
Hilary Gallin | Anesthesia Rep
Greg Leya | Surgery Rep
Marc Succi, MD | Executive Director, MESH Incubator
Mike Fenn, PhD | Director, Healthcare & Life Sciences; Harvard Innovation Lab