Retsina Meyer, PhD

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. _____ Strategic and business development-focused leader in translational science evolving the ecosystem of personalized therapies for neurological disorders. Offers a rare combination of deep science expertise and business innovation as a successful start-up founder, biotech advisor, and partnership/alliance builder in the corporate, industry, and public sectors in the U.S. and internationally. • Strategic leadership – Founded PTSD drug development company including capitalization, organizational/board building, and international CRO recruitment. As consultant, advises CEOs on company formation, fundraising, strategy, and science roadmaps. • Business development – Brought future-focused innovation, deep science expertise, and market needs/risk analysis to direct development of therapeutics, product pipelines, and infrastructure models. Rationalized internal and external programs, de-risked, and built both development and licensing partnerships. • Innovation ecosystem-building – Strategic thinker who has made connections within and across businesses, government, investors, and non-profit organizations to create “super networks” that advance scientific development platforms and therapeutic development. • Translational and neuroscience expertise – Internationally recognized as a systems thinker, bringing new recognition to brain/body connections. MIT neuroscience Ph.D. and neuroendocrinology post-doc with focus on pharmacology to promote resilience and recovery in brain disorders and injuries. Fulbright Scholar at Norwegian Institute of Technology with two Nobel Prize winners leveraging electrophysiology to better understand neural networks of memory formation and retrieval. • Team building and communication – Develops, effectively manages and inspires cross-functional, trans-generational business and scientific teams, strategic partners and boards. Talented communicator, as a mentor, industry spokesperson, and science/business “translator,” including a high-profile TED Talk.