PROTO VENTURES CHANNEL:
AI + Healthcare
MISSION
BACKGROUND
The AI+Healthcare Channel launched in 2019 as a collaboration between the Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health research program and the Deshpande Center at MIT. It was the first project from Proto Ventures. AI+Healthcare focuses on creating groundbreaking new opportunities in health care by building on MIT’s pioneering history in artificial intelligence and life sciences, including early diagnostics, drug discovery, care personalization, and care management.
WHO WE ARE
MANAGING DIRECTORS
Gene Keselman
Executive Director, MIx
FACULTY DIRECTORS
Fiona Murray
Associate Dean of Innovation and Inclusion at the MIT School of Management and the William Porter (1967) Professor of Entrepreneurship
Michael Cima
David H. Koch (1962) Professor of Engineering
FACULTY ADVISORS
Jim Collins
Termeer Professor of Bioengineering in the Department of Biological Engineering and Institute for Medical Engineering & Science
Dimitris Bertsimas
Boeing Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management, a Professor of Operations Research, and the Associate Dean for the Master of Business Analytics at MIT.
VENTURE BUILDERS
Luis Ruben Soenksen
Researcher and Serial Entrepreneur
PhD @ MIT | Synthetic Biology | AI | Devices
MSE @ Johns Hopkins University | Medical Devices
AI & HEALTHCARE
VENTURES
Toci
Toci’s app allows patients to share the information that truly matters to them—building trust and fostering meaningful connections with their providers.
Toci then distills this complex narrative with their AI pipeline to personalize the patient’s electronic health record in a way that is clinically useful and profoundly humane.
AI + HEALTHCARE
NEWS
MIT Proto Ventures program readies new startups for launch
MIT Innovation Initiative Venture Builder Luis Soenksen accelerates the launch of unique AI and health care startups in record time.
Luis R. Soenksen
soenksen@mit.edu
Researcher and Serial Entrepreneur
PhD @ MIT | Synthetic Biology | AI | Devices
MSE @ Johns Hopkins University | Medical Devices
Luis has extensive entrepreneurial experience in multiple startup companies.
Luis R. Soenksen is a serial entrepreneur and medical device expert currently acting as MIT’s first Venture Builder in the Artificial Intelligence + Healthcare channel. Luis holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from MIT as well as a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from the Monterrey Institute of Technology, and a Master’s of Science in Bioengineering from Johns Hopkins University.
His training includes medical device design, development and manufacturing, as well as clinical testing and deployment of healthcare ventures. More fundamentally Luis has made significant contributions to the fields of bio-design education, bioengineering, tissue engineering, synthetic biology and artificial intelligence. Luis work has been published in several high impact journals such as Science, research that has also led to several patented biomedical technologies, and collaboration with several start-up companies internationally.