Dinner with Erika Ebbel - STEM Educator and Biotech Entrepreneur

Date: 

Thursday, April 4, 2019, 6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Gordon Hall Room 106

Dinner with Erika Ebbel

Thursday, April 4th

6:30-8:00pm - Gordon 106, HMS, Longwood Campus

RSVP here. Dinner will be served!

 

Join us for an exciting evening with Erika Ebbel, PhD, a Boston University and MIT alumnae and CEO and co-founder of Ixcela! Ixcela is the Internal Fitness Company, a Biotechnology company aimed at developing tests and interventions to improve gut microbiome efficacy and health. Erika also founded Science from Scientists, an award-winning National nonprofit focused on improving Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) attitudes and aptitudes for children aged 9-13. 

 

In 2018 she was awarded the “Young Alumni” award by Boston University. In 2017 she was the recipient of the “Distinguished Alumni Award” from Boston University School of Medicine Division of Graduate Medical Sciences. In 2014 the Boston Business Journal selected her as one of the “40 Under 40″ business and civic leaders who are making a major impact in their respective fields in the Boston area. Her accomplishments have also been recognized by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce’s Pinnacle Awards for Emerging Executive. In 2013 the Boston Chamber of Commerce selected her as one of the “Ten Outstanding Young Leaders” in Boston. Selected by L’Oreal Paris as a 2007 Woman of Worth for her work with Science from Scientists, Erika has been featured on Lifetime TV and Nova Science Now on “The Secret Lives of Scientists and Engineers.”