Laura Davis is an early stage investor interested in helping entrepreneurial life scientists translate their work from the bench to the marketplace. She currently leads the Boston chapter of Golden Seeds, a nationwide angel investor group that provides early stage and growth capital across all sectors to women entrepreneurs. She also co-leads the Golden Seeds National Health Care Group. Trained at Rockefeller University and the Whitehead Institute, she was a faculty member at Duke University Medical School and later at the Rosenstiel Center at Brandeis University, overseeing an active laboratory using molecular genetics to study cellular function. She has authored numerous publications, has taught graduate and medical students, and was also involved in teaching molecular biology to the Knight science journalism Fellows at MIT.  She served on the board of directors of Day Zero Diagnostics and at nonprofit Community Rowing Inc.