Melinda Richter
Melinda Richter (born in Saskatchewan, Canada) is the global head of Johnson & Johnson Innovation JLabs. She is the founder and previous CEO of the firm Prescience International.[1]
Richter has received numerous industry awards including the PharmaVOICE 100 Red Jacket Award,[2] Fierce Biotech Top 15 Women, MM&M 2017 Healthcare Transformer, Fast-company Most Innovative Company in Biotech and Association of Women in Science (A.W.I.S.) Leadership Award. She is now Chair of the California Life Sciences Association after being Vice Chair for some time.[3] Richter, through the Johnson & Johnson external R&D engine created commercialization models that help early stage companies by providing infrastructure, services, educational programs and networks in global hot spots.[4]
Education[edit]
Melinda holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the Edwards School of Business[5] of University of Saskatchewan in Canada and a MBA from INSEAD in France.[6]
Career[edit]
She started her career in 1996 with the telecom company Nortel with which she held positions across a variety of functional areas in locations such as the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, New York, Toronto, London, Hong Kong and Beijing. Her latest trip to China at the time, for a leadership development program has left a mark on her career with a medical emergency which left her questioning about the efficiency of the large-scale health system.[7] After the accident Ms Richter quit her Nortel job to move to California so as to work with entrepreneurs involved in life sciences, making a significant change in her career path. In 2006, she founded Prescience International[8], a firm dedicated to the commercialisation of science by creating and managing research foundations to help commercialise healthcare-related discoveries[9]. In 2013, Prescience merged with Johnsons & Johnsons and JLABS, a new series of R&D hubs around the U.S. that offer startups the opportunity to take advantage of JLABS spaces for scientific research.[10]
1996 in China[edit]
Richter's path to the life sciences industry began in 1996 in Beijing, when she had been sent to work for a leadership development program by Nortel International, the company she worked for at the time, when she had a medical emergency. As she arrived into the city, she needed to take a short walk through the woods, where she got bitten by a toxic insect that sent her immediately to hospital.[11] The doctors' diagnoses were very pessimistic after the insect bite as they had never seen anything like this until that time.In the end, the recovery took place thanks to a disease expert from the United Kingdom, sent by Richter's company who diagnosed her infection.[12]
Prescience and JLABS[edit]
Prescience is a firm born to help to commercialise healthcare-related discoveries; it works with research institutes, incubators, and other related groups.[13] Richter founded Prescience after she had the medical emergency in Beijing with the intentions of improving the healthcare industry. [14]
In 2013, Prescience was merged with Johnsons & Johnsons after several meetings with the company's top officials. JLABS, an incubator for life-science startups, in fact, started as an experiment in 2012, with the goal of providing support for early-stage science to successfully make the transition from idea to product. Under Ms. Richter's leadership, since 2013, the JLABS model has expanded from an initial experimental site in San Diego to four additional locations around the nation.[15] JLABS partners are supported by Johnson & Johnson Innovation science leads for therapeutic areas that include Immunology, Neuroscience, cardiovascular/metabolic's, infectious disease/vaccines, and oncology. There is also a medical device science lead and a consumer science lead. JLABS accepts companies that have the potential, good science and technology to become critical solutions and helps them reach the market.
AWIS leadership award & system change[edit]
In 2018, Richter was awarded the AWIS leadership award for her role as a STEM leader and for encouraging high representation of women in leadership and her workplace support policies at JLABS[16].To the end of creating a system change to eliminate the difference between men and women in the STEM field [17],Richter's Johnson & Johnson collaborates with many women's organisations to help women have more confidence in their abilities and increase diversity in the workplace. JLABS network in fact has an average of 23% of CEOs being women for the tech-industry.[18]
Awards[edit]
- 2013: Global head of Johnson & Johnson JLabs.
- 2015: FierceBiotech Top 15 Women.
- 2015: The 2015 PharmaVoice Change Agents.
- 2017: MM&M Healthcare Transformer.
- 2018: BIO superhero.
- 2018: Pharma Voice 100 Red Jacket Award
- 2018: Fast-company Most Innovative Company in Biotech and Association of Women in Science (A.W.I.S.) Leadership Award.
- 2018: Treasurer and Board member of the California Life Sciences Association.
- 2019: Chair of the California Life Sciences Association.
References[edit]
- ↑ "JLabs' Melinda Richer finds a new life in healing". straittimes.com. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
- ↑ "Red Jacket Melinda Richter". Retrieved 2 October 2019. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Melinda Richter Chair". califesciences.org. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
- ↑ BioSpace (25 October 2018). "J&J's JLABS Incubators Show off Success of First Six Years". BioSpace. Retrieved 2 February 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ University of Saskatchewan, College of Medicine (2019). "Connective Issue". University Journal. Fall 2019 edition.
- ↑ "Speakers:Melinda Richter". Retrieved 3 October 2019. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ The Straits Times, In Good Company: JLabs' Melinda Richter finds a new life in healing (2017). "Broadsheet newspaper". The Straits Times. Retrieved 1 February 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Bloomberg. "Prescience International Inc". Bloomberg. Retrieved 1 February 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ OpenEI (September 2014). "Prescience International". Retrieved 1 February 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Melinda Richter's Profile". Xconomy.com. Retrieved 30 September 2019. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Five questions for:Melinda Richter". Xconomy.com. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
- ↑ "Melinda Richter, Levelling the playing field for biotech startups". fiercebiotech.com. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
- ↑ "Special Report: Melinda Richter". fiercebiotech.com. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
- ↑ "I had to be about advancing innovation in the healthcare. ... To try and make it sexy and be where the best talent and investors want to get into." Melinda RIchter, Five Questions For: Melinda Richter, Global Head at JLabs, [1]
- ↑ "The 2015 PharmaVOICE 100". Retrieved 3 October 2019. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Women at the forefront of STEM". AWIS. Retrieved 4 October 2019. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "I see that many women's voices are often overlooked or not heard because of the package it comes in. It has been a mission of mine to ensure that we're creating systemic change to make that difference." Melinda Richter for Forbes, 'A New Report Uses Data To Drive Diversity In STEM Fields' by Amy Blankson [2]
- ↑ "A New Report Uses Data To Drive Diversity In STEM Fields". Forbes. Retrieved 4 October 2019. Unknown parameter
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