Martha C. Farmer, PhD – President and CEO, North Shore InnoVentures, a non-profit business incubator designed to accelerate the growth of life sciences and cleantech start-ups. Prior to serving with NSIV, Martha was a Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School which led to a consulting role with the Harvard Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee and with a stem-cell start-up, StemCore. Formerly with Baxter Healthcare’s Hemoglobin Therapeutics Division for eleven years, Martha transitioned from managing the research laboratory to directing product development, marketing and communications. She subsequently consulted for several firms in clinical development of blood substitutes as well as for the DoD and NIH. She also co-founded the radiopharmaceutical start-up, BetaGamma LLC, serving as Vice President of Marketing. Martha serves on the Board of Trustees of the North Shore Community College and on the Board of Directors of the North Shore Technology Council where she chairs the Council’s Biomedical Technology Section.She also serves on the Institutional Review Board and Ethics Committee of Northeast Hospital Systems and the Ethics Committee of Hospice of the North Shore.Martha earned a BS in zoology and PhD in physiology and pharmacology from Duke University, postdoctoral training in biophysics from Johns Hopkins University, and is an author on more than 30 publications and three patents.