L.E.K. Consulting

Since 2014 I have been a member of L.E.K. Consulting‘s life sciences and medtech practices. I have experience on 40 engagements for clients including MDs and C-suite executives at venture capital, private equity, and Fortune 500 organizations. Over the course of my tenure I have led case teams to perform projects ranging from long-term strategy planning for Fortune 500 companies to investment due diligence for venture and private equity firms. For more information on my most recent work, please reach out to me at matt@matthewmancuso.com.

Cornell University

As a PhD Student in Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University I focused on creating new techniques and platforms for bio-sensing, including smartphone based mobile health applications, under the direction of Professor David Erickson. My work involved combining new photonic, microfluidic, and nano- technologies to create novel devices that do things like sense different DNA molecules in a solution. My projects have been featured on 12+ media sites (Examples: time.com, buisnessweek.com, sciencedaily.com) and Popular Science even wrote a piece on why our approach wasn’t the best plan!

Projects I began are still ongoing today and have led to clinical trials in rural villages in sub-Saharan Africa India. All together I authored or help author 9 academic papers with over 200 citations and was an invited speaker at 2 international conferences and presenter at 7. Additionally, I invented 4 biomedical US patents and provisional patents that have been licensed by 2 companies. For more information on this work, see Professor David Erickson’s website.

Towards the end of my tenure I spun out a related tech start-up, vitaMe technologies with two of my colleagues, David and  Vlad. I was the founding CEO of vitaMe, which was aimed at developing smartphone accessories for monitoring biochemical markers including cholesterol and vitamin D levels. I led us to raising $10,000 pre-seed funding, developing a working MVP, and winning the best pitch award during a pre-seed workshop. I left vitaMe for L.E.K., but the company is still ongoing and is currently pursuing a number of interesting opportunities.

Stony Brook University

Before coming to Cornell I was a student at Stony Brook University where I studied Biomedical Engineering and worked under the guidance of Professor Helmut Strey. At Stony Brook my research focused on microfluidics, especially particle handling and sorting, and long-range ordered nanomaterials. My work at Stony Brook University often took me to Brookhaven National Laboratories where I spent time at The Center for Functional Nanomaterials and The National Synchrotron Light Source.  At the time, I also became involved in the Stony Brook Chapter of the Biomedical Engineering Society, eventually becoming President of the organization for final year.