Meeting: “Role of Universities in Fostering Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem”

Susan Hockfield served as the sixteenth president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology from December 2004 through June 2012 where she continues to hold a faculty appointment as “President and Professor of Neuroscience”.

As the first woman and first life scientist to lead MIT, she championed the breakthroughs emerging from the historic convergence of the life sciences with the engineering and physical sciences, in fields from clean energy to cancer, including the work of MIT’s David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.

In keeping with MIT’s entrepreneurial spirit and signature strength in working with industry, she actively fostered the burgeoning Kendall Square innovation cluster, which features both global giants and biotech, IT and energy start-ups with roots at MIT.

Hockfield earned a B.A. in biology from the University of Rochester and a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's School of Medicine. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She holds honorary degrees from many institutions.

RSVP: Ceyda Altunay Demir

Phone: 312.292 55 86 e-mail: ceyda.altunay@tepav.org.tr