Kushner Jake A

Dr. Jake Kushner is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Invectys, Inc. Dr. Kushner also serves as Medical Director for McNair Interests, a private equity firm in Houston, Texas. A graduate of UC Berkeley, Dr. Kushner completed his MD at Albany Medical College, pediatric residency at Brown, pediatric endocrinology fellowship at Harvard, and a research fellowship at the Joslin Diabetes Center. He then held full-time medical school faculty appointments at Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and lastly Baylor College of Medicine, where he was Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology and also a McNair Scholar. Dr. Kushner is an internationally renowned type 1 diabetes researcher with extensive previous NIH and JDRF funding. He has served on numerous review panels for industry, the NIH (DDK-B study section chair), and foundations including the JDRF and the ADA. Dr. Kushner has received numerous honors, including awards from the March of Dimes, the Hood foundation, and the NIH, elected membership to the ASCI, and served as President of the Society of Pediatric Research.