Greta Brunet, MBA, PA-C
Senior Director, Investments
North Carolina Biotechnology Center
Greta Brunet is Senior Director, Investments for the North Carolina Biotechnical Center. She joined NCBiotech in May of 2016. She supports the startup and growth of life science companies across North Carolina, primarily through management of the Center’s loan programs. Additionally, Greta identifies and mentors early-stage and loan portfolio companies and supports key scientific/investor events.
Greta has 20-plus years of life science industry experience, ranging from clinical practice as a physician assistant (family medicine and internal medicine) to working with several start-ups and small- to mid-size pharma, biotech, device and diagnostic companies. She brings extensive expertise in strategic marketing, commercial development and analytics, market assessments and business-case development, new-product planning, corporate development, and business development/licensing.
Greta holds an undergraduate degree in psychology from Siena College in New York, a certificate of completion with honors from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine Physician Assistant Program, and an MBA in corporate finance and general management from Wake Forest University's Babcock Graduate School of Management.
Corie Curtis
Executive Director, Greater Charlotte Area
North Carolina Biotechnology Center
Corie Curtis is Executive Director, Greater Charlotte Office of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center. She became interim executive director of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center’s Greater Charlotte Office in May 2012.
Curtis, an experienced business and events manager, oversees daily operations of the NC Biotech office she joined in 2011 as regional coordinator.
Before moving to Charlotte, Curtis was executive director of the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center in her hometown of Jamestown, New York.
Curtis also held management positions at several companies in Massachusetts and Rhode Island after 11 years in various positions at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in advertising/communications.
Michael Evans, MEd, APR
Assistant Dean, Marketing, Communications and Business Development
Duke University School of Nursing
Michael is Assistant Dean, Communications, Marketing and Business Development at the Duke University School of Nursing. He joined the Duke University School of Nursing in October 2012 as the Director of Marketing and Communications. In this role, he is responsible for leading the School’s broad portfolio of internal and external communications channels as well as its brand development, marketing and student recruitment advertising programs.
Michael’s more than 30 year career includes extensive senior management experience which includes leading diverse, high-performing teams for multinational corporations, public relations and advertising agencies, and associations. His international and domestic communications experience includes strategy development, consumer product marketing and operations, media relations, internal communications, crisis management, and government relations.
Michael earned his M.Ed. from North Carolina State University and his B.A. from The Ohio State University.
Karen Judge
Senior Program Coordinator
Duke University School of Nursing
Karen is Senior Program Coordinator at the Duke University School of Nursing. She joined Duke in 2016 and brings with her more than 17 years of graphic design and administrative experience. Prior to Duke, Judge worked that University of Carolina Chapel Hill’s Department of Sociology as an Administrative Assistant/Undergraduate Student Services Manager.
Having an extensive background in digital graphic design, Karen has owned and operated Winthrop Designs a graphic design firm since 2002.
Karen earned her bachelors of arts in Political Science from Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia.
Ryan Shaw, PhD, RN
Associate Professor and Digital Health Scientist
Duke University
Dr. Shaw is an Associate Professor and Digital Health Scientist at Duke University. He is the Faculty Director for Duke University’s Mobile App Gateway and the creator and Director of our Health Innovation Lab.
He works with teams of scientists and clinicians to advance the field of precision health through the use of mobile technologies, known as ‘Mobile Health’ — the collection and dissemination of health information using mobile and sensing technologies. These technologies afford researchers, clinicians, and patients a rich stream of real-time information about individuals’ environment, and biophysical and behavioral health in their everyday lives. His goals are to identify and optimize novel, useful methods of collecting, visualizing, and disseminating healthcare data to (1) better inform our understanding of human disease and (2) improve patient and clinical decision-making.
Dr. Shaw works with faculty, staff and students at Duke’s Schools of Nursing, Medicine and Engineering to integrate mobile technologies into first-generation care delivery systems. He was one of the first scientists to publish that patients could feasibly use multiple mobile technologies to manage their health. Additionally, he has conducted foundational clinical trials to explore how patients and clinicians use mobile health for self-management and care delivery. His work is funded by private and government organizations, including the US National Institutes of Health.
The Health Innovation Lab is used as an accelerator to test new technologies and care delivery processes in both real and simulated clinical environments. Our space includes a 20,000 square foot simulated hospital that is used for R&D. Research from the lab has led to internal and external funding, product licensing, and company formation.