Mr Michio Painter, PhD

KANDO id: 1044264

Bio

Michio brings scientific and entrepreneurial experience to Social Starts and Joyance Partners, where he focuses on identifying transformative opportunities in deep science. He is a co-founder of Blue Therapeutics, a biotech company developing non-addictive painkillers. Previously, Michio worked as a prize developer in assistive technologies for the XPRIZE foundation. Michio has an extensive academic research background, having authored or co-authored 17 peer-reviewed publications that have been cited over 4000 times across the fields of neuroscience, aging, and immunology. He completed his PhD under an NRSA fellowship at Harvard before performing post-doctoral studies as an HHMI fellow at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.

Career


Social Starts

Venture capital partnership with a data-driven approach to investing in moment-of-inception and Series A financing rounds.

Education