Applications for the MIT/Harvard ECS cohort will close on November 8 at 11:59pm PDT.
The Entrepreneurial Mindset for PhDs & Postdocs
Emerson Consequential Scholars is designed to help PhDs and postdocs cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset, tell the story of their work, and explore how their research can live beyond the lab.
The program brings ambitious scholars from leading universities together for a personalized, immersive experience. They meet founders, visit organizations shaping their respective fields, and build a community to help them bring their ideas into the world.
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Additionally, during the summer of 2027, we will host our OPEN program, welcoming applications from PhD students and postdoctoral researchers at universities around the world.
Meet our Scholars
Favour Nerrise
Baseline CEO, Founder
Camron Blackburn
Adiabatic Machines CTO, Co-Founder
Building a World Where...
“I’ve always been drawn to solving challenges that have a huge impact. And fertilizer is one of those because it sits right at the intersection of climate change and food. We need it to eat, but at the same time, it’s a climate killer. And so we must reinvent it.”
—Tim Schnabel
—Founder & CEO, Switch Bioworks
we grow our food sustainably.
Building a World Where...
“People have thought of Alzheimer’s as a specific disease, but I think of it as a general feature of aging — and I’ve been treating aging directly as a way to treat Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s at the root.”
—Alexander LeNail
—Emerson Consequential Scholars
our brains are healthy our entire lives.
Building a World Where...
“Medra believes that the biggest bottleneck to building scientific superintelligence is that we need orders of magnitude more data — so we’re building physical AI scientists that not only can reason about science and predict new drugs, but can robotically and autonomously run experiments end to end.”
—Michelle Lee
—Founder & CEO, Medra
AI eradicates disease.
Building a World Where...
“I’ve always been drawn to solving challenges that have a huge impact. And fertilizer is one of those because it sits right at the intersection of climate change and food. We need it to eat, but at the same time, it’s a climate killer. And so we must reinvent it.”
—Tim Schnabel
—Founder & CEO, Switch Bioworks
we grow our food sustainably.
Building a World Where...
“People have thought of Alzheimer’s as a specific disease, but I think of it as a general feature of aging — and I’ve been treating aging directly as a way to treat Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s at the root.”
