Come hear venture insights, startup tales, and more from Misti Ushio (WSE ’94)!
Misti Ushio is a Managing Partner at Digitalis Ventures. Digitalis Ventures invests in solutions to complex problems in health. She is also a board director of Digitalis Commons which builds solutions that have an outsized impact on healthcare. Prior to Digitalis Ventures, Misti was the founder and CEO of TARA Biosystems which was acquired by ValoHealth in 2022. TARA Biosystems developed physiologically relevant 3D cardiac tissue models for accelerated discovery and development of novel medicines via its disease modeling and phenotypic screening capabilities. Earlier in her career, Misti has served as Chief Strategy Officer and Managing Director of Harris & Harris Group, where she advised and invested in life science companies to help them translate their transformational science into commercially successful companies. She also held management roles at Merck & Company, where she developed vaccines and biologics products, and Columbia University, where she managed the intellectual property of several scientific and engineering portfolios. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University (B.S., Chemical Engineering), Lehigh University (M.S., Chemical Engineering) and University College London (Ph.D., Biochemical Engineering). She also serves as a Director on the boards of private and public life science companies. In 2018, she was named to Fast Company’s Top 100 Most Creative people in Business.
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