VENTURE LAB TEAM
Yale Venture Lab Associates are graduate and professional students who work with faculty-led innovation teams to develop project briefs and support a series of interactive coaching sessions.
Venture Lab Team
Venture Lab Associates
Each year we hire Student Associates from all corners of Yale, representing dozens of industries and scientific disciplines to support our teams.
Justin Kim
MPH (Biostatistics)/MBA, Yale University
B.S. in Economics, Wharton School of Business
B.A. in Mathematical Biology, University of Pennsylvania
Christine Sedlack
MBA, Yale School of Management
B.A. in Economics and Mathematics, Columbia University
Siddharth Arun
MBA, Yale School of Management
B.S./M.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Laure Zhang
MBA/MPH Candidate, Yale University
B.A. in Economics and Mathematics, University of Notre Dame
“What makes Yale Venture Lab special is how hands-on the work is: you’re side-by-side with faculty turning breakthrough research into a real business case, supported by an incredible community of Yale Ventures mentors and other associates around you.”
“One of my favorite parts of Yale Venture Lab was helping faculty refine their product concept. I loved the advisory role and the opportunity to be involved in such incredible, world-changing projects led by phenomenal faculty. Yale Ventures was an incredibly formative and memorable part of my Yale experience.”
“At Yale Venture Lab, you get to work at the crux of innovation in an academic setting, supporting groundbreaking technologies while learning from experienced industry professionals.”
“As a Yale Venture Lab Associate, I've worked directly with faculty teams to craft clear roadmaps for funding and commercialization. It’s incredibly rewarding to help founders take their next steps with confidence.”
Justin came to Yale after building a career in biopharma strategy and corporate development, including pipeline and launch strategy work at ZS, helping drive Oncoceutics through its $438M acquisition by Chimerix, and supporting the $7.3B acquisition of Telavant by Roche while working at Roivant Sciences.
Over the past three years as a Yale Venture Lab Associate, he has partnered with eleven professors across projects ranging from CAR-T therapies to AI-driven chemical synthesis, translating cutting-edge science into diligence-ready business cases by pressure-testing indications, competitive positioning, and partnering paths.
Christine brought a deep finance lens to Yale Venture Labs, shapes by her work as an investment banking analyst focused on tech IPOs at Barclays and as a quantitative capital markets advisor at Matthews South.
As a former Venture Lab Associate, she helped Yale founders sharpen positioning and craft investor-ready narratives across life sciences, medical devices, digital health and the arts. Her work sits at the intersection of story and substance: clarifying the product concept, mapping the competitive landscape, and building the strategic and financial framing that helps early-stage ideas earn credibility and someday become investable. Post graduation from Yale SOM, she is currently a senior investment associate at East Bay Merchant Partners.
Siddharth is a former Yale Venture Lab Associate and Blavatnik Associate. He paired his biomedical engineering background from Johns Hopkins with previous experience in life sciences consulting at Charles River Associates, where he worked on go-to-market strategy for biotech and pharma teams.
Siddharth brought that same practical lens to Yale Venture Lab faculty projects, helping teams size opportunities, build simple financial models, and map early commercialization paths across diagnostics, drug delivery, and digital health. He’s especially skilled at translating technical concepts into crisp, pitch-ready stories for Yale PitchFest and investor conversations.
Laure brings a rare mix of public health and commercial strategy, shaped by her McKinsey experience during COVID working on supply chain disruption, rising costs, and equity in care access.
At Yale Venture Lab, she channels that lens into hands-on venture support for digital health and life sciences teams, including projects like Synvest, where she helped shape market and funding strategy for a novel radiopharmaceutical tracer. Each week, she helps faculty founders turn strong science into an executable plan by tightening the value proposition, building pitch materials, and mapping clear roadmaps for commercialization and fundraising.