Karen Bernstein Email & Phone Number

Karen is co-founder and chairman of BioCentury Inc. and was Editor-in-Chief from October 1992 to August 2015. She is a director at Ovid Therapeutics Inc., which is developing drugs for orphan diseases of the brain; and at Codiak Biosciences Inc., which is engineering exosomes to target new therapeutic spaces. She is on the board of trustees of the Keck Graduate Institute of the Applied Life Sciences and is a member of the board of the Critical Path Institute. She serves on the board of overseers of Scripps Research. Karen holds a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University and a B.A. in politics and history from Brandeis University, where she served for many years as a member of the Brandeis University Science Advisory Council. In 2005, the annual gathering of biotechnology chief executive officers at The Biotech Meeting in Laguna Niguel, Calif., inducted Karen into their Hall of Fame, citing her lifetime contribution to the biotech community. In 2007, Karen received a Special Recognition award at the American Liver Foundation's Salute to Excellence, honoring individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to biotechnology and medical innovation. In 2013, she was named as one of the 100 Women of Influence in Silicon Valley by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. In 2015, Scientific American named Karen as one of The WorldVIEW 100 most influential people in biotech today. In 2016, she was named Commentator of the Year by the European Mediscience Awards.Most recently, she contributed an essay to Biotechnology in the Time of COVID-19: Commentaries from the Front Line.Karen-Bernstein.comKaren has been designing and making modern art quilts since 1974. You can view and purchase her artwork at karen-bernstein.com. In a world that seems to be fraught with more peril every day, I think it is important to keep creating and surrounding ourselves with things of beauty that remind us of the good that humans are capable of.

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  Chairman

  Biocentury Inc.

  Aug 1992 - Present