New England Chapter

Webpage

Please access the ETH Alumni New England Chapter webpage here

Contact: Simone Airoldi

Board

Dean Glettig, President

• Chemistry at ETHZ, graduation year 2007
• Master thesis on bone marrow culture in a 3D silk structure
• Currently: PhD Candidate at Tufts University
• Focus: tissue engineering bone marrow and adipose tissue

Daniel Schaufelberger, Vice president

• Pharmaceutical sciences at ETHZ, graduation year 1981
• Doctor in pharmacy at Universite de Lausanne, 1986
• 1986 - 1990: Research at the Cancer Research Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ and Frederick Cancer Research Facility, Frederick, MD
• 1990 - 1996: Sandoz Pharma AG, analytical development, Basel and Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Cilag AG, Schaffhausen
• 1996 - 2009: various position in analytical and pharmaceutical development, and non-clinical project management, J&J PRD, Raritan, NJ
• Since 2009: Director/CMC Leader, pharmaceutical development and manufacturing sciences, J&J PRD, NJ

Renata von Tscharner, Board member

• Architecture and city planning ETHZ, 1972
• 1975 - 1978: Greater London Council - planning officer in the Covent Garden task force, London, England
• 1978 - 1979: assistant city planner at the city planning office in Bern, Switzerland
• 1980 - 1997: co-founder and principal at The Townscape Institute, Cambridge, USA
• 1997 - 1999: faculty at the Radcliffe Seminars, landscape program, Cambridge, USA
• Since 2000: founder and president of the Charles River Conservancy

Patrick Anquetil, Board member

• Mechanical engineering at ETHZ, graduation year 1998
• Came to the US in 1999 to complete a PhD at MIT and an MBA at Harvard Business School
• Started two life sciences companies
• Currently: director at SynapDx, an autism diagnostic company
• Expertise in entrepreneurship, venture capital fund raising, and taking sciences from lab bench to the commercial world

Simone Airoldi, Treasurer

• Mechanical Engineering at ETHZ, graduation year 2010
• Focus on: Control systems, Robotics, Autonomy and Aerospace
• Master Thesis on discrete path planning algorithms at MIT
• From November 2010: internship in Cambridge focusing on development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles