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Julia Rosander

New Haven,CT

Summary

Venture strategist with expertise in digital health, AI/ML, and early-stage commercialization. As a Blavatnik Fellow at Yale Ventures, I lead investment analysis, due diligence, and GTM strategies for AI-driven health tech. With a background in bioinformatics and machine learning, I bring deep technical insight to emerging innovations. Skilled in financial modeling, portfolio management, and strategic partnerships, I excel at identifying and supporting high-impact startups.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Blavatnik Fellow: Digital Health

Yale Ventures
New Haven, CT
05.2024 - Current
  • Drives commercialization efforts for 20+ Yale academic teams in digital health and AI, conducting in-depth market research, business modeling, and go-to-market (GTM) strategy development.
  • Fosters innovation by identifying and securing strategic partnerships to advance project goals and collaboration opportunities.
  • Served as operator roles for pre-seed stage digital health startups to enhance fundraising capabilities.
  • Streamlines operations and ensures successful project execution, aligning deliverables with commercialization objectives.
  • Evaluated AI and Machine Learning investments for the Colton Autoimmunity Fund

Consultant

miLEAD Consulting
Ann Arbor, MI
11.2022 - 12.2023
  • Led market research and investment analysis for a biotechnology client in medical diagnostics, creating client deliverables, and identifying future diagnostic avenues for innovation.
  • Created client deliverables to showcase optimal market entrance strategies.
  • Identified current medical advancements to pinpoint future diagnostic avenues.

Graduate Student Researcher

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
09.2021 - 12.2023
  • Applied video-based segmentation methods to evaluate ophthalmological surgeon trainee performance and determine regions of surgery that could be improved based on instrument localization.
  • Utilized methods such as YOLOv4 and Darknet53 to classify surgical instruments across 1,000,000 frames, to determine localization over time.
  • Improved the mean average precision of the model significantly by increasing the dataset, using computational power, and efficiently parsing frames.
  • Created and deployed Beta-VAE for neurological tissue classification and discovery, while maintaining high performance.
  • Utilized bioinformatic tools, such as single cell sequencing analysis, for the analysis of genetic data relating to the resistance of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Aided the development of a multi-modal VAE model for disease classification across collected mouse and human data.
  • Aided the development of a multi-modal VAE model for disease classification across collected mouse and human data.

Graduate Student Instructor

University of MIchigan
Ann Arbor, MI
01.2023 - 04.2023

Complex Systems 251: Computational Science and Analysis Applied to Society and Science

  • Developed lab material through JupyterLab to reinforce lecture information, and to provide hands-on programming and statistical analysis experience.
  • Led weekly lab sections where lecture content was reviewed, and data analysis skills were taught.
  • Scheduled and maintained regular office hours to meet with students.
  • Collected 4.7/5.0 teaching evaluation ratings in all topics, including the ability to help and maintain an effective learning environment.

GRED Data Science Intern

Genentech
South San Francisco, CA
05.2021 - 09.2021
  • Developed and coded a pipeline to concatenate two years of protein sequence reads to analyze drug effectiveness.
  • Automated pipeline streamlined analysis and increased efficiency by 20%.
  • Utilized bioinformatics tools to run statistical analysis for small-molecule drug development.
  • Developed and deployed structured testing and research processes among molecule creation and drug research groups.
  • Presented a poster of analysis and pipeline in the Genentech Intern Showcase to multiple colleagues while fielding questions and received priority standing.

Undergraduate Researcher

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
05.2017 - 05.2020
  • Used R programming and Imaris Image Analysis software to quantify specific neuronal expression in Drosophila melanogaster.
  • Utilized 3D image modeling to better understand neuronal structure.
  • Conducted fluorescent microscopy imaging after conducting neural dissection and fixation.
  • Specifically studied the transcription factor Dawdle and its differing effects on lipogenesis and glycolysis.
  • Ran Triglyceride assays and analyzed data correlating to differences in feeding behavior
  • Supported principal investigators during research into the physiological and anatomical changes of the brain on differing diets.

Education

Master of Science - Computational Medicine And Bioinformatics

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
01-2023

Bachelor of Science - Neuroscience

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
01-2020

Skills

  • Financial modeling
  • Investment strategies
  • Competitive analysis
  • Due diligence
  • Business modeling
  • Portfolio management
  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • MATLAB
  • Computer Vision: Detection and Segmentation
  • Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational neuroscience

Certification

  • Microsoft AI-900: Azure Fundamentals Janurary 2024

Publications

  • Julia Rosander, Vivek Philip, Niran Hadad, Timothy Hohman, Vaibhav Janve, Yiyang Wu, Vilas Menon, Catherine Kazorowski.
    "Using Complex Genetics in Mice to Unlock the Secrets of Resilience to Dementia", AAPD 2024
  • Julia Rosander, Reva Kulkarni, Keegan Moo, Jin Huang, Zhenjie Sun. "Optimizing segmentation methods for feature detection in brain MRI images", EECS 545 Final Presentation: April 2023
  • May, C. E., Rosander, J., Gottfried, J., Dennis, E., Dus, M. "Dietary sugar inhibits satiation by decreasing the central processing of sweet taste." eLife, December 2019
  • May, C. E., Vaziri, A., Pardo-Garcia, I.R., Li, Y.Q., folme, K. J., Gottfried, J., Rosander, J., Dennis, E., Neely, G.G., Pletcher, S., Dus, M. Sugary diets affect sweet taste reward neurort activity to promote overeating in Drosophila melanogaster." Talk at Cold Spring Harbor Labs, Neurobiology of Drosophila meeting, October 2019
  • May, C. E., Vaziri, A., Rosander, J., Dennis, E., Holme, K.J., Pletcher, S., Dus, M. "Innovations in taste and feeding research." Talk at Neuroscience Spring Symposium at UM, May 2019
  • May, C. E., Vaziri, A., Pardo-Garcia, T.R., Lin, Y.Q., Horwitz, L., Gottfried, J., Rosander, J., Dennis, E., Freddolino, P., Neely, G.G., Dus, M. "Diets high in sugar alter reward for sweet taste to increase feeding in Drosophila." Poster at Modulation of Neural Circuits and Behavior Gordon Research Conference, May 2019

Timeline

Blavatnik Fellow: Digital Health

Yale Ventures
05.2024 - Current

Graduate Student Instructor

University of MIchigan
01.2023 - 04.2023

Consultant

miLEAD Consulting
11.2022 - 12.2023

Graduate Student Researcher

University of Michigan
09.2021 - 12.2023

GRED Data Science Intern

Genentech
05.2021 - 09.2021

Undergraduate Researcher

University of Michigan
05.2017 - 05.2020

Master of Science - Computational Medicine And Bioinformatics

University of Michigan

Bachelor of Science - Neuroscience

University of Michigan
Julia Rosander