The Soul of Biotech

Jonathan Sheffi is a lifelong student with a fiery passion for improving patients’ lives through miracles of biotechnology. He is a member of the Harvard Business School MBA Class of 2011 and is actively seeking an internship for the summer of 2010. Jonathan recently organized the 2009 BIL:PIL Healthcare Innovation Conference in San Diego, California.

Jonathan has spent several years in the biotechnology industry, most recently as a summer intern in the Office of Biotechnology Products within the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Drug Evaluation and Research in Silver Spring, Maryland. He has also worked at Amgen, excelling in both field sales and market research roles. Prior to Amgen, Jonathan consulted for a variety of healthcare companies as part of Accenture’s Health and Life Sciences Strategy practice.

Jonathan attended MIT as both an undergraduate and graduate student. His graduate research focused on computational biology, and was conducted at the Broad Institute under Profs. Mark Daly, David Altshuler, and Itsik Pe’er. The accompanying thesis, which described a novel model of human haplotype variation, was awarded the first-place David Adler Memorial Thesis Prize by the MIT EECS department for the best Master’s thesis of 2004.

Jonathan currently lives in Boston, MA. In his spare time, he relishes puzzles of all kinds. He has been a member of four winning Mystery Hunt teams (2002, 2006, 2008, and 2010), and captained the winning Microsoft Puzzle Day team in 2003. When he’s not helping patients or solving a brainteaser, he enjoys meditation, basketball, rooting for the Red Sox, collecting t-shirts, and singing a cappella with Heard On The Street. He is a graduate of National Bartenders School.

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