Jorge Cortell

Jorge Cortell

Senior Advisor, Health & Life Sciences, at Harvard University Innovation Labs
Venture Innovation Fellow at Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Jorge Cortell

Jorge is the Senior Advisor, Health & Life Sciences, at Harvard University Innovation Labs. A serial entrepreneur, Jorge has founded 6 startups (5 exits and one shut down) in 3 countries and 5 industries. He has been CEO 7 times in 6 industries. His innovations in healthcare technology include launching the first commercial “white-box” AI for healthcare image analysis (2019), inventing the first precision medicine software platform (2014), designing the first vendor-neutral digital pathology dicomizer (2012), and building the first commercially available augmented reality system for surgery (in 2009). As an educator, he has delivered keynote talks at events like HIMSS and RSNA, guest lectures at institutions like Oxford, Harvard, MIT, and Stanford, while having taught innovation at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the Open University of Catalonia. At Harvard, Jorge also serves as Venture Innovation Fellow at the School of Engineering. Prior to that he was a Venture Partner at NLC, Europe's largest Healthtech Venture Builder. He has been a professional basketball player, and member of the European Commission Expert Group on Venture Philanthropy and Social Investments. Educated at the University of Oxford (Computer Science graduate), MIT (Entrepreneurship Development Program), and the University of Valencia (postgraduate in Clinical Genomics), he has received innovation and academic awards by: NASA, HIMSS, IBM, Digital Pathology Association, Frost & Sullivan, and the Wall Street Journal.

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iLabs, Batten Hall, 125 Western Ave - Allston, MA 02134
p: 347-458-9329