The rest of the 100 (in alphabetical order): Meredith Fisher, Partners Innovation Fund
After two years, Meredith Fisher has returned to the Rising Stars roster. She has been a partner at Partners Innovation Fund, the investment vehicle of health system Partners Healthcare, for the past three years, joining when it was starting to raise its second fund.
The fund invests in companies in the fields of technology and discoveries made by researchers in the Partners system. Its aim is to be a catalyst to transforming academic research into commercial products to improve healthcare. Fisher was attracted by the alignment of strategic mission and investment return while being surrounded by researchers from different areas of medicine.
Before joining the fund, she was a director of private investments at Bracebridge Capital, a family office that manages investments and employee hedge funds, investing especially in early-stage life sciences companies. Additionally, she led business development at Ginkgo BioWorks, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) spinout that provides biological engineering services, and she was a senior director of technology and business development at Enlight Biosciences, a drug discovery supplier backed by PureTech Ventures.
Fisher has a PhD in molecular microbiology from Harvard University, an MBA from MIT and a bachelor’s degree in biology and chemistry from Mount Holyoke College. While at Harvard, she co-founded Harvard Graduate Women in Science and Engineering and was a mentor for several years.
In her spare time, Fisher takes guitar lessons and participates in Women in the Enterprise of Science and Technology, a non-profit organisation that focuses on early and mid-stage career women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics in Boston, US.
