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Gary Kaufman

Gary Kaufman

Chief Operating Officer

ABI-LAB

Johannes Fruehauf

Johannes Fruehauf

Co-Founder, President

LabCentral

Carly Bassett
Moderator

Carly Bassett

Principal and Vice President of Design

TotalOffice Interiors

Iram Farooq

Iram Farooq

Managing Director

Harvard University

Gary Kaufman

Chief Operating Officer

ABI-LAB

Mr. Kaufman serves as Chief Operating Officer at ABI-LAB. Along with his partners at ABI-LAB Mr. Kaufman is an angel investor in a multitude of biotech ventures, and he is currently in the process of creating an investment vehicle to fund an additional two to four companies a year. For over 30 years he has been a successful entrepreneur, with expertise in consumer-related businesses ranging from residential and commercial real estate to automotive and consumer vending. Mr. Kaufman is the president of Shelby Enterprises Inc., a commercial and residential real estate firm. In addition to his real estate background, Mr. Kaufman has played a significant role in the Metrowest startup community as co-founder and vice chairman of the Metrowest Life Sciences Network, an organization whose mission is to foster awareness of and promote professional networking opportunities among the regions scientific and entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Metrowest region. He has a BS in Management Science from Bridgewater State College with advanced studies at Tel Aviv University and Harvard University.

Johannes Fruehauf

Co-Founder, President

LabCentral

Johannes Fruehauf (MD PhD)With his background as a physician working in diverse health systems, coupled with 20+ years as a serial biotech entrepreneur, Dr. Fruehauf has dedicated much of his professional endeavors to supporting life science entrepreneurs and start-upcompanies. Dr. Fruehauf is currently General Partner and co-founder of Mission BioCapital (MBC). In his role at MBC, Johannes sources, diligences, and leads new life-science investment transactions and represents thefund on the board of a number of MBC portfolio companies.

He is also the Founder and President of LabCentral andBioLabs, the largest provider of laboratory co-working space for startups nationwide, currently serving over 300 startups in 14 cities. Over the past three years, the companies started within this network secured over 20% of all Seed and Series A venture capital invested in life sciences in the US.

Johannes studied medicine in Germany and France, while also conducting field work in Africa (Zimbabwe and Guinea). Thereafter, he practiced medicine (internal medicine and OB/Gyn) for several years in Germany before coming to Boston for a post-doc at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School.Johannes graduated from University of Frankfurt and received his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg. He is also the author of over 30 peer reviewed publications and is named inventor on 9 issued patents on drug delivery and RNAi-based therapeutics.

Carly Bassett

Moderator

TotalOffice Interiors

Carly Bassett is a Principal and Vice President of Design at TotalOffice Interiors, a contract furniture

dealer with extensive experience in the Life Science sector throughout Cambridge and across the

country. With a background in Interior Design and over 10 years of experience in the furniture industry,

Carly brings insight and dynamic solutions to every project.

An effective space is entirely dependent on the team using, interacting, and engaging with it. Therefore,

her approach is consultative - first exploring a company’s organizational needs and drivers to facilitate the

most successful and effective end-result.

Carly has been an organizer and co-chair of the ‘Battle of the Biotech Bands’ event since 2014 and is co-

chair of the IIDA New England Design Awards. She has a BS in Interior Design from Drexel University in

Philadelphia.

Summary

  1. Incubators, accelerators and coworking spaces are the ground floor from which many startups begin. How have these shared spaces been able to function to help early-stage life science businesses continue their work?

  2. Where is venture capital most hungry for investments in the life sciences space? Has funding increased or decreased since the onset of the pandemic?

  3. What are the fastest-growing life sciences incubators in Boston, and what can we learn from their successes to attract tenants?

  4. How do companies set themselves apart in the eyes of investors if they can’t take in-person meetings or pitches?

  5. A chunk of incubator funding comes from the state and local governments. How has the economy impacted those funding streams, and how can companies make up the gap?

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