Erin McKenna is Head of Medical Devices and Operating Partner of the Amplify Program at MGB and also serves as Program Director for Brigham Ignite, an early-stage translational program for Brigham and Women’s researchers and clinicians. The Ignite program is based in part on the successful Boston Biomedical Innovation Center (B-BIC), a life science accelerator program funded by the National Institutes of Health, where Erin was the Deputy Director. Projects receiving B-BIC awards have generated over 20 times their initial return on investment on average.
Previously Erin worked at Boston Scientific in Research and Development, where she launched several vascular graft and peripheral embolization products before shifting her focus to identifying and implementing company-wide product development lifecycle process improvements. Erin earned MBA and MS degrees in Global Management from Babson College, a BE in Chemical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, and holds 9 issued patents.