Zen Chu

Entrepreneur/Investor

Zen Chu is the faculty director of MIT Hacking Medicine. He believes that now is the best time in history for healthcare entrepreneurs and engineers to create the data, systems and products to help medicine scale and serve more patients with higher quality at lower cost. Zen created and teaches the MIT Healthcare Ventures graduate courses within the pioneering Health Science & Technology (HST) program, a joint initiative between MIT, Harvard Medical School and the Boston academic hospitals. As faculty director for the HackingMedicine.MIT.edu health innovation leadership initiatives, Zen mentors physician entrepreneurs, early-stage start-ups and health corporations adapting to global digital healthcare transformation, changing healthcare incentives, growth in emerging markets, and new disruptive technologies that re-engineer medicine.