Dr. Noubar Afeyan to give a lecture on Armenia’s development

PanARMENIAN.Net - On June 6, Dr. Noubar Afeyan, the managing partner and CEO of Flagship Ventures, will speak about “The Global Armenian Nation: Fueling Armenia’s Development” at a dinner meeting of the St. James Armenian Church Men’s Club in Watertown, MA, the Armenian Weekly reported.

In 2000, Afeyan co-founded Flagship Ventures, a firm that focuses on inventing, launching, funding, and building new ventures. He is a senior lecturer at MIT, where he has taught courses on entrepreneurship and innovation since 2000. He also recently joined Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering as a visiting scholar. Afeyan has authored numerous scientific publications and patents since earning his Ph.D. in biochemical engineering from MIT in 1987. During his 23-year-long career as an inventor, entrepreneur, CEO, and venture capitalist, Afeyan has co-founded and helped build more than 25 life science, technology, and energy startups. He currently serves on a number of public and private company boards and is a member of several advisory boards, including the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT, the Whitehead Institute at MIT, the SKOLKOVO School of Management in Moscow, and the National Competitiveness Foundation of Armenia. Afeyan’s past and current ventures include PerSeptive Biosystems, ChemGenics Pharmaceuticals, EXACT Sciences, Color Kinetics, Celera Genomics, Affinnova, Adnexus Therapeutics, BG Medicine, LS9, and Joule Unlimited.