The Blavatnik Fellowship
The Blavatnik Fellowship is a one-year fellowship designed for high-potential life science industry professionals with advanced technical skills who have an interest in joining the Yale and New Haven life sciences entrepreneurial ecosystem. Blavatnik Fellows assist Yale faculty members and their research teams to fully explore the commercial potential of their breakthrough life science technologies. They work closely with staff and faculty teams that receive support from The Blavatnik Fund for Innovation at Yale, a $65 million fund run by Yale Ventures that develops and translates Yale's groundbreaking research into innovative healthcare solutions.
2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows
2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows
2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows
Applying for the Blavatnik Fellowship
The Blavatnik Fellowship at Yale is designed to identify promising scientists and business people with a passion for biomedical entrepreneurship, to provide a hands-on experience for building their entrepreneurial skills, while simultaneously providing mentorship and professional development responsibilities. The fellowship seeks to engage a small number of highly talented professionals in new venture concepts being advanced across the life science spectrum, working alongside a wide-range of world-renowned scientists, investors, entrepreneurs, and other domain experts. This is a one-year fellowship.
Blavatnik Fellows enjoy a unique set of advantages
- Professional development and training on a range of topics, including commercial strategy, R&D management, intellectual property, regulatory affairs, business development, and entrepreneurial financing
- Mentorship by distinguished business and science leaders of regional biopharma and health technology communities
- Leadership opportunities, including the opportunity to join and develop founding teams of new ventures
- Financial support in the form of a one-year salary and benefits plus access to funding for due diligence, market research, licensing options and other commercial activities arising from the fellowship
Contact
For questions, contact: james.g.boyle@yale.edu or morag.grassie@yale.edu
Application Guidelines
Preferred applicants will have some or all of the following:
- A Ph.D. in the life sciences or M.D. with experience in evaluating commercialization opportunities through either corporate internships or other business-oriented extracurricular activities,
- Acumen in the life sciences to effectively interface with a wide variety of faculty exploring novel concepts in therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices,
- Research and/or work experience in a health-related field, and
- Experience in project management or interfacing with external contract research organizations
- The Fellowship year is April 1st through March 31st.
- Fellows receive a $100K salary plus benefits over the 12 months as well as an expense budget to support enterprise creation.
- Fellows will be provided with work space at Yale.
- This is a full-time, on-site fellowship.
- The Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship is jointly led by James Boyle, Ph.D., Executive Director, Faculty Entrepreneurship & Venture Development and Morag Grassie, Ph.D., Director of the Blavatnik Fund.
Meet Past Yale Blavatnik Fellows
2021-2022
2020-2021
2019-2020
2018-2019
