About Jonathan Sheffi
Jonathan Sheffi is a lifelong student with a fiery passion for cutting-edge biotechnology products that dramatically improve patients’ lives. He is currently a member of the Harvard Business School MBA Class of 2011. This summer, he was the Summer Associate for the CEO Chief of Staff at Life Technologies in Carlsbad, California, focusing on business planning and strategy for the company’s entry into genomic medicine. Last year, Jonathan organized the 2009 BIL:PIL Healthcare Innovation Conference in San Diego, California.
Jonathan has spent several years in the biotechnology industry. Shortly before beginning studies at HBS, he interned 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 genomic medicine, and was conducted at the Broad Institute under Profs. Mark Daly, David Altshuler, and Itsik Pe’er. The resulting thesis, which described a novel model of human haplotype variation, was awarded the first-place David Adler Memorial Thesis Prize by the MIT EE/CS department for the best Master’s thesis of 2004. Jonathan has received a MEng in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, a SB in Mathematics, a SB in Computer Science and Engineering, and a minor in Biology, all from MIT.
Jonathan currently lives in Carlsbad, California. 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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