Zain Kassam
Chief Medical Officer, Seed Health | Board of Directors | Strategic Advisor | Physician-Scientist | Founder
- Role
- Chief Medical Officer at Seed Health
- Location
- Somerville, MA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Zain Kassam
Dr. Zain Kassam is the Chief Medical Officer at Seed Health. He is an award-winning physician-scientist, entrepreneur, and senior biotechnology executive working at the intersection of medicine, biological engineering, and computer science. He co-founded and led a healthcare company that delivered life-saving microbiome treatments to over patients and saved the healthcare system $1B. Dr. Kassam co-founded and built a first-in-field biotechnology company that resulted in an upsized IPO (NASDAQ) with a $1B market capitalization, and secured leading pharmaceutical partnerships for AI-enabled drug discovery in IBD. He has led Phase clinical trials with top-tier academic collaborators across multiple therapeutic areas. Dr. Kassam is a mentor at Creative Destruction Labs, an investment committee member of the UCeed Health and Child Health Funds, and a steering committee member of the national MaRS-adMare Therapeutic Accelerator. He has experience with diverse technologies serving on the Board or as an advisor to venture capital firms, foundations, and private healthcare companies.Dr. Kassam received the 2020 Public Health Innovator Award from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, among the most esteemed awards for Alumni. He was named to the prestigious Top 40 under 40 Healthcare Innovator List by MedTech (2016) and received the Young Alumni Award from Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University (2017) for pioneering innovations in public health. He has authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications and abstracts, including in leading journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Biotechnology, and Gastroenterology. He is ranked among the top 10 researchers in the world in this field of expertise, and only industry pioneer, by independent expert assessment platform (Expertscape). Dr. Kassam is an inventor on over 15 patent applications or patents. He has been featured on PBS, CNN, BBC, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and numerous other media outlets. Dr. Kassam has served as Co-Chair of the CMO Summit 360 Summit, which brings together 70+ CMOs from around the globe. Dr. Kassam received his MPH from Harvard University with a focus on clinical trials on a Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship, and completed his post-doctoral training in biological engineering/AI at MIT. He was awarded his MD from Western University in London, Canada. Dr Kassam completed his Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology training at McMaster University, where he was both the Chief Medical and Chief Gastroenterology Resident.
Experience
Chief Medical Officer
Apr 2024 — Present
Education
Harvard University
Program for Educators in Health Professions Scholar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Post-doctoral Training, AI/ML and Biological Engineering
Harvard University
Master of Public Health (MPH), Quantitative Methods & Clinical Trials
Western University
Doctor of Medicine (MD)
McMaster University
BHSc
Skills
- Medical Diagnostics
- Hospitals
- Strategic Planning
- Gastroenterology
- Medical Education
- Healthcare
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Research
- National Speaker
- Internal Medicine
- Infectious Diseases
- Public Health
- Gastrointestinal Disorders
- Data Analysis
- Pharmaceutical Microbiology
- Science
- Life Sciences
- Non-Profit Leadership
- Immunology
- Clinical Research
- Epidemiology
- Medicine
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