Partner at Material Impact
View Live Interactive Profile →Corinna Chen is a Partner at Material Impact, where she focuses on synthetic biology, bio based materials, advanced electronic materials, next generation computing, and climate technology. She began her career designing spacecraft instrumentation at UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory for NASA's THEMIS mission. She later worked in business development and engineering at Incline Therapeutics, helping commercialize the IONSYS transdermal device and leading integration after the company's 390 million dollar acquisition by The Medicines Company, where she went on to hold a vice president level role in the Surgery and Perioperative Care business unit. She was also Vice President of Corporate Development and Finance at Medeor Therapeutics. She holds nine patents and has transaction experience exceeding 1.25 billion dollars across eight products. She earned a BS in electrical engineering from Boston University and an MBA from Duke University.