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Renee Wasko, PhD

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Investor, Life Science & MedTech at Samsung Ventures
📍 United States

Renee Wasko is a life science and MedTech investor at Samsung Ventures, leveraging her scientific background to inform investment strategies. Her experience includes a role at Connecticut Innovations and a Ph. D. in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology from Yale University, where she also completed a postdoctoral fellowship.

She is passionate about supporting women in the bioscience ecosystem, demonstrated by her active involvement with organizations like WIB-Connecticut. Renee is committed to fostering talent and innovation within her professional community, particularly in the Connecticut area, and promoting peer coaching and networking among women in science.

Her doctoral research focused on the cellular mechanisms of skin repair, specifically how immune cells, Langerhans cells, promote angiogenesis after wounding.

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Experience
10 Years
Current Role
Investor, Life Science & MedTech
Location
United States
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Life Science Investing
Her current role at Samsung Ventures and previous position at Connecticut Innovations are focused on investments in the life science and MedTech sectors.
Women in Bioscience
She actively supports women in her field, highlighted by her promotion of a WIB-Connecticut peer coaching workshop for women in the state's bioscience ecosystem.
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Career

Work history

12-2025
Investor, Life Science & MedTech
Samsung Ventures
10-2022 - 12-2025
Associate, Life Science Investments
Connecticut Innovations
5-2022 - 10-2022
Postdoctoral Scientist
Yale University
2-2021 - 5-2021
Scientific Consultant
Verge Genomics
9-2020 - 5-2021
Blavatnik Associate
Yale Office of Cooperative Research
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Education
2015 - 5-2022
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Yale University
2011 - 2015
Bachelor of Science (BS)
University of Connecticut
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