Winning the 2018 University of Florida Warrington School of Business Big Idea Competition helped Nasser Nassiri Koopaei, Ph.D., ’21, plant a seed, which the UF College of Pharmacy alumnus has been carefully nurturing ever since.
Nassiri Koopaei, who holds a doctorate in pharmaceutics from the UF College of Pharmacy and master’s degrees in public health and chemical and pharmaceutical engineering from the University of Tehran, presented his research about the production of extracellular vesicles from stem cells to a panel of Warrington judges back in 2018, his spirited presentation motivated by an affinity for innovation and a desire to address unmet medical needs in targeted drug delivery.
His enthusiasm was clear to the judges, and he took home a $25,000 prize — money he invested in making his research dreams a reality. Today, Nassiri Koopaei sits at the helm of EriVan Bio, a biotechnology start-up housed in the UF Innovate Sid Martin Biotech Incubator in Alachua, Florida.
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