Suelin Chen
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Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering 2010
B.S., Biology (Minors in Biomedical Engineering and Music) 2003

Ecole Polytechnique 
Palaiseau, France
Programme Internationale: Fluids, Soft Matter Physics, Electronics 2003 – 2004

Experience

CEO and Co-Founder, Cake
2014-present
• Building a brand new application for advance care and end of life planning that is focused on ease of use

Associate, IMS Health
2012-2014
• Advised life science companies on strategies for commercializing their science

Director, Laboratory at Harvard
2010-2012
• Led an experimental educational platform for to support inter- and cross-disciplinary student ideas 
• Mentored students on entrepreneurship and idea development

Postdoctoral Fellow, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
2010-present
• Identified commercialization opportunities for research projects at the Wyss Institute 

Research Assistant, Center for Molecular Imaging Research, Massachusetts General Hospital
2007-2010
• Engineered molecularly targeted nanoparticle imaging agents to non-invasively stage prostate cancer using both fluorescence and MR imaging