Meike Herget

Meike obtained her PhD in Biochemistry from Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, studying structural and functional aspects of complex membrane transport proteins. After an internship at Columbia University in New York City in the Department of Biological Science, she came to Stanford University, California for her postdoctoral research. At the Stanford Medical School, she studied the function of a membrane protein involved in synaptic transmission in the inner ear. Always driven to translate research into business ideas, Meike conducted entrepreneurship and innovation programs at Stanford University such as the Innovation Farm (iFarms) Program as well as the Stanford Ignite program at the Stanford business school (GSB). This finally led her to cofound Avails Medical.