VMS relies primarily on the financial support from our mentors, mentees, and friends.
With your gift, you will join other VMS donors, whose commitment to our fledgling businesses has helped drive innovation and fulfill MIT’s educational mission.
Ways you can support VMS
Check [Payable to MIT. Designated to Venture Mentoring Service #2730500]
Donor-Advised Fund [Payable to MIT. Designated to Venture Mentoring Service #2730500]
Meet our Donors
Donor Spotlight - Kyri Dunussi-Joannopoulos
A VMS mentor on why she gives back:
“I joined VMS in 2012, following a long career as a physician-scientist in academic medicine and the biopharmaceutical industry. Mentoring allows me to share that experience with early stage entrepreneurs, particularly when they are making the foundational scientific, preclinical, and strategic decisions that will shape their ventures. At the same time, I continue to learn enormously from the entrepreneurs and from my fellow mentors, whose diverse perspectives make the team mentoring process so valuable and rewarding. I give to VMS because I believe deeply in its mission and want to help ensure that this unique community continues to guide promising innovators as they work to transform important ideas into solutions that can make a meaningful difference in people’s lives.”
Kyri is a physician-scientist and board-certified hematologist/oncologist with more than 15 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. She retired from Pfizer as Senior Director and Head of the Immunology Research Unit, where she led the discovery and early clinical development of small-molecule and biologic therapies. She completed her graduate and postdoctoral training at Aristotle University in Greece and Imperial College London and previously practiced academic hematology/oncology at AHEPA University Hospital in Greece. Kyri has served as an MIT VMS mentor since 2012, primarily advising ventures in the biosciences and medical devices fields.
Kyri has been mentor at MIT VMS since 2012, mentoring ventures in the biosciences and medical devices field. We thank Kyri for her generous support!
VMS Founders Society
Securing the vision of our founders, Alec Dingee and Dave Staelin
The VMS Founders Society honors a select group of donors to the VMS Endowment Fund, whose leadership commitment helps to assure the future of our program and serves as a role model for others.
Gordon & Cathryn Baty
Jeffrey Bernstein
Susan J. Gray (Mrs. Alexander Dingee, Jr.)
Allan M. Green
Sherwin & Vivian Greenblatt
Steven and Carolyn Kelly
James Kemler
Roman Lubynsky & Karen Golz
Morton Meyerson
Silvio Micali
Donald Shobrys & Carol Aronson
Ellen Staelin
Ray Stata
Robert Stearns
Rajeev Surati
Charles & Margo Yie
Todd Zion
VMS Annual Donor Honor Roll
The MIT Venture Mentoring Service thanks the following donors for their generosity in Fiscal Year 2024 (July 2023—June 2024).
Endowment
Allan Green
Sherwin and Vivian Greenblatt
Ray and Maria Stata
Charles and Margo Yie
Demo Day 2024
Roman Lubynsky & Karen Golz
Akston Biosciences
Math Works
MIT Stex 25
Ray and Maria Stata
Operational Support
Jerry Ackerman
Carlton Aird
Roi Amszynowski & Catalina Araya Cohen *
Enrico Ancona
Anonymous
Gordon and Kate Baty
Afarin Bellisario
Jeffrey Bernstein
Paul Bosco
Kerry Bowie
Adele Bozza
Everett Bramhall
Aliki Collins
Shivang Dave *
Lucas DiLeo
Kyriaki Dunussi & John Joannopoulos
Ernest & Young Foundation
Geoffrey Gill
Louis Goldish
Robert Goodof
Robert Gottlieb
Allan M. Green
Jonathan Green & Jennifer Stone
Louis Gudema
Joseph Hadzima
James Harrison
John Harthorne *
Paul Hartung
Deb Hicks
Catherine Iacobo
Diane Joseph-McCarthy
Jonathan Katz
Stephen & Carolyn Kelly *
Charles Kiefer
Lawrence Krakauer
Natalie Kuldell *
Kristin Kupres
Gene Landy
Hikyu Lee
Howard Levin
Jesse Lipcon
Roman Lubynsky & Karen Golz
George Mabry
David Manns
Walter Massenburg
Jerome Meier
Ali Merchant *
Julie Messervy *
Peter Miller
Kyra Montagu
Margery Myers
Quinton Ng *
John O’Donnell
Katherine Putnam
Dhananjaya Rao
Neil Rasmussen & Anna Winter
Peter Rosenblum
Daniel Ross
Ernest Sabine
Alexander Sappok
Ronald Scharlack
Andrea Schievella & Robert Karp
Joel Schindall
John Schwartz
Richard Scott
William Severns
Donald Shobrys & Carol Aronson
Kevin Sieck
Michael Silverman
Jeffrey Singer
Stephen Smith
Jerry Socol
Joseph Soussou
Robert Stearns
Bruce Sunstein
Elliot Swan
Carol & Neil Todreas
Bill Townsend *
John Turner & Tee Taggart
James Van Alen
Pierre & Amy Villeneuve
Susan & William Wagner
Tairan W& & Huan Yao *
Steven Willis
Charles Yie
Kent Zelle *
Pei Zhang *
Charles Ziering
* VMS entrepreneur