Michal Preminger, PhD, MBA

Johnson & Johnson Innovation

Regional Head

Michal is Regional Head of Johnson & Johnson Innovation, she leads the team to curate and cultivate the most promising, early-stage healthcare innovations in the region, spanning across pharmaceutical, consumer health and medical devices. Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Michal served as the Executive Director of Harvard University�s Office of Technology Development (OTD) Harvard Medical School site, where she was responsible for development and commercialization of technologies emerging from research at HMS laboratories and for the strategy and execution of all industry collaborations. She negotiated agreements with major biopharma, life sciences, food and cosmetics companies to advance the translation of discoveries into products and create a revenue-generating product pipeline and worked with scientific founders and investors to create new startup companies. Michal serves on the Board of Directors for MassBio, the Kendall Square Association (KSA), and the Massachusetts Business Roundtable. She is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Binah Initiative at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Michal holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Biological Sciences from the Weizmann Institute of Science, an MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, and a BA in Medicine from Hadassah Medical School, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.