Our Team

Meet the Innovation Team

Vineet Gupta, PhD

Vice President Innovation and Technology Development and Transfer | Professor of Nephrology

Sundeep Mattamana, PhD, MBA

Sundeep Mattamana headshot Executive Director for Technology Development and Transfer

Brenna Knott, MS

Program Manager

Lauren Burkhalter

Administrative Manager

Dan Jupiter, PhD

Daniel Jupiter headshot Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, GSBS | Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics & Data Science

Scott Moen, PhD

Scott Moen headshot

Director of Health Innovation – Biotech | Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology

Nehal Dwivedi, PhD

Technology Development Associate

Meet the Office of Innovation Advisory Board

Murali Goplalkrishnan, PhD ​

Global Head, Neuroscience Search & Evaluation AbbVie​

Jakob Dupont, MD ​

Executive Partner, Private Equity, Sofinnova

Pei-Yong Shi, PhD​

Global Head of Viral Vaccines, GSK​

Julio Medina, PhD ​

CEO and Founder of R2M ​

James Galbraith ​

Director, Sealy & Smith Foundation​

William McKeon ​

President & CEO Texas Medical Center​

Sanja Sever, PhD​

Vice President ​​ Drug Discovery

Director, Sealy Institute for Drug Discovery​ UTMB​