Praveen Kumar Vemula, a postdoctoral researcher in the Karp
Lab at Brigham and Women's Hospital, is one of 13 researchers to receive the
Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneurial Postdoctoral Fellowship Award.
Vemula was selected in part for his entrepreneurial vision
to take lab research to market and for his recent breakthrough research with
Jeffrey Karp, instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School, in which they
devised on-demand drug delivery vehicles for therapeutic applications.
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation established the
yearlong program to empower postdoctoral students to take their own discoveries
from the lab to the market. Fellows will receive salary and benefits, entrepreneurship
education, and mentorship to support their research and equip the fellows to
commercialize their scientific discoveries.
Karp, director of the Laboratory for Advanced Biomaterials
and Stem Cell-Based Therapeutics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, will serve as
Vemula’s academic adviser, mentoring him on matters of research and
commercialization.
