Michael W. Deem
Michael Deem has been involved with startups and Venture Capital since 1994, when he was Director of Drug Design at CuraGen Corporation. That early success, a $100M IPO in 1998, sparked a life-long journey of inventing the future. While a professor at UCLA and later Rice University, Michael continued to work with small companies. The biggest exit was with Ion Torrent Systems, where he was the 3rd person and did all of the original engineering calculations. Ion Torrent was sold as an installment to Life Technologies in 2010, and that part of Life was sold to ThermoFisher for $2.3B in 2014.
Michael joined the other side of venture capital as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Khosla Ventures in 2021. There he reviewed companies for portfolio inclusion, mentored portfolio companies, and helped incubate the creation of several new companies. Building on that experience, Michael became a General Partner at SmartHealth Catalyzer, where he worked to develop the venture capital landscape for life science companies in the Midwest. During his time, he has been CEO of a number of companies in the Energy and Life Science industries. He has worked on problems related to energy extraction, refining, and production. He has worked to meet significant unmet medical needs.
Dr. Michael W. Deem has made significant contributions to the fields of physics, bioengineering, and chemical engineering. Dr. Deem is a well-known U.S. Scientist, venture capitalist, and CEO. In addition to his impressive academic achievements, Dr. Deem is also an avid rock climber, Taekwondo practitioner, and Porsche enthusiast.
Michael Deem has received numerous awards: NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemistry (1995-1996); Assistant and tenured Associate Professor, UCLA (1996-2002); NSF CAREER Award (1997-2001); Northrop Grumman Outstanding Junior Faculty Research Award (1997); Visiting Professor, University of Amsterdam (1999); A Top 100 Young Innovator, MIT’s Technology Review (November 1999) (Profile and Original Profile); Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (2000); Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2002); John W. Cox Professor, Rice University (2002-2020); Allan P. Colburn Award (2004); Editorial Board Member, Protein Engineering, Design and Selection (2005-present); Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2005); Member, Board of Directors, Biomedical Engineering Society (2005-2008); Fellow, American Physical Society (2006); Member, Rice University Faculty Senate (2006-2009); Vaughan Lectureship, California Institute of Technology (2007); Member, Nominating Committee, Division of Biological Physics, American Physical Society (2007); Member, Board of Governors, Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (2007-present); Fellow, Biomedical Engineering Society (2009); BMES Representative on the FASEB Publications & Communications Committee (2009-2012); Professional Progress Award (2010) (Profile); Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2010); External Scientific Advisor, Princeton Physical Sciences-Oncology Center (2010-present); Associate Editor, Physical Biology (2011-2018); Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award, The Academy of Medicine, Engineering & Science of Texas (2012); Founding Director, Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology (2012-2014, raised $0.5M seed funding); Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar (2012-2013); Chair, Department of Bioengineering (2014-2017, raised $12M in external startup funding for new faculty); Editorial Advisory Board, Bioengineering and Translational Medicine, (2016-2019); Donald W. Breck Award for zeolite science (2019); and NACD Board Leadership Fellow and Directorship Certification (2020). His name has been synonymous with innovation and thought-provoking research for three decades. He enjoys mentorship, vaccine design, and helping others invent the future.
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