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Jillian Shaw

Investor

Associate at Magnetic Ventures

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Writes $100K – $5M checks · typically $1.5M

About

Jillian Shaw is an Institute Scientist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Associate Director of the Ladders to Cures Accelerator. She also serves as a Venture Partner at Magnetic Ventures, focusing on early-stage founders.

Experience

  1. Broad Institute of MIT and HarvardInstitute Scientist Broad Institute of MIT and Harvardcurrent2026 — presentCambridge, Massachusetts, United States
  2. Broad Institute of MIT and HarvardAssociate Director Ladders to Cures Acceleratorcurrent2025 — presentCambridge, Massachusetts, United States
  3. Broad Institute of MIT and HarvardSenior Scientific Advisor: Ladders to Cures Accelerator2024 — 2025Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
  4. Broad Institute of MIT and HarvardScientific Advisor2020 — 2024Cambridge, MA
  5. Magnetic VenturesVenture Partnercurrent2024 — presentCambridge, Massachusetts, United States
  6. Magnetic VenturesVenture Associate2022 — 2024
  7. Cure Alzheimer's FundScientific Advisor2018 — 2020Greater Boston
  8. Cell PressEditor for Neuron2016 — 2017Cambridge, MA
  9. Knowing NeuronsEditor2013 — 2017
  10. Stanford UniversityPostdoctoral Research Scholar2015 — 2016Palo Alto, California
  11. University of Southern CaliforniaNeuroscience Ph.D.2010 — 2015University of Southern California
  12. University of LiègeResearch Assistant Undergraduate Research Summer Institute (URSI)2008Liège, Walloon Region, Belgium

Education

  1. Columbia UniversityPostbaccalaureate Premedical Program, Medicine2017 — 2018
  2. University of Southern CaliforniaPh.D Student, Neuroscience2009 — 2015
  3. Vassar CollegeB.A. Departmental Honors, Neuroscience2005 — 2009
  4. Chadwick SchoolHigh School2001 — 2005

Skills & more

Molecular & Cellular BiologyTranscriptomicsMachine LearningNeuroscience60Biochemistry9Statistics6Western Blotting9Genetics29Cell Culture15PCR4Data Analysis15Molecular Biology27
+12 moreCell BiologyImmunohistochemistryScienceResearchMicroscopyTransfectionFluorescence MicroscopyConfocal MicroscopyIn VivoExperimental DesignAnimal ModelsMolecular Cloning

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