Role: Mentor
Tracks: Life Sciences
Maria-Louisa Izamis
Senior Director of Product Innovation, Flagship Pioneering
Maria-Louisa is a Senior Director of Product Innovation at Flagship Pioneering where she leads a team developing product concepts across innovative biotech platforms, supporting spinouts and large pharma partnerships. From 2022-2025, Maria-Louisa was Director of Business Development at Beam Therapeutics. She holds a PhD from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology which lead to her founding a company out of the Massachusetts General Hospital prior to joining Philips as a Clinical Scientist and Innovation Program Director for institutions such as Mayo Clinic and the NIH.