Irit Ben-Chelouche

Director of Business Development, Harvard Medical School

Irit has been involved in technology transfer and business development activities for more than 15 years. Most of her career has been at Ramot, the technology transfer unit of Tel Aviv University. At Ramot, she led the life science portfolio, responsible for most of the transactions with multinational, local, and spin-off pharma and biotech companies. Prior to joining Ramot, Irit served as CTO for LabTech Ltd., a biotechnology accelerator providing laboratory facilities and business expertise to biotech/pharma entrepreneurs. She was also Sales & Marketing Manager at Rhenium Ltd., a leading Israeli supplier of medical research products and devices. She holds a M.Sc. in Molecular Genetics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.