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Name: Simren Singh
Hometown: Darnestown, Maryland
Institution: University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland)
Role: Ecosystem Fellow, BioBuzz Networks
Simren Singh is a recent MBA graduate and Ecosystem Fellow for the Research Triangle Park region, bridging the gap between life sciences, emerging technology, law, and business strategy.
How does a breakthrough technology actually reach the people who need it? For Simren Singh, the answer isn’t just about science. It’s about systems. With a pre-law background and experience as an entrepreneur, Simren has spent years studying how institutional frameworks impact daily life and livelihoods. In June 2026, she earned her MBA with a Technology Management specialization from the University of Maryland, College Park, building the strategic and operational toolkit to actively improve those systems.
Her pivot into the life sciences ecosystem crystallized during her MBA capstone, where she managed a consulting engagement for the Defense Health Agency. Tasked with commercializing CyPharx, a saliva-based pharmacogenomic diagnostic test for personalized dosing, Simren confronted the friction between what a technology can do and what market infrastructure, policy, and access actually allow it to achieve. She also came away convinced that investment in science, technology, biotech, and R&D is critical to driving society forward. That gap, which she describes as a business, legal, and human problem all at once, is where she wants to operate.
During her MBA, she served as VP of Marketing & Operations for the Net Impact Club, was an active member of Empower Women in Law and the Consulting Club, and was named a Forté Fellow. Today, she brings her systems-level thinking to BioBuzz as an Ecosystem Fellow for North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park, tracking the very market dynamics (financial, clinical, and commercial) and regional shifts she’s been training to navigate.
We sat down with Simren to talk about her path into the life sciences ecosystem, what’s exciting her right now, and where she sees herself headed next.
How did you get here?
I have always been someone who thinks in systems. My pre-law background taught me how institutional systems impact our day-to-day lives. Being an entrepreneur showed me how systems can have an impact on people, their livelihoods, and their day-to-day workflows. A desire to improve upon those systems and solve problems with a more structured framework is what drew me to business, and eventually to an MBA where I could build the strategic and operational toolkit to do something about it.
After joining the program, I witnessed artificial intelligence rapidly improving and the power at which an emerging technology can influence the landscape, which drove me to pick a technology management specialization. I was deeply curious not just about how businesses operate, but I wanted to examine how emerging technologies move from breakthrough to market, what stands in the way, and what it costs society when the answer is nothing or not yet.
“I was deeply curious not just about how businesses operate, but I wanted to examine how emerging technologies move from breakthrough to market, what stands in the way, and what it costs society when the answer is nothing or not yet.”
It culminated in my MBA capstone, where I managed a consulting engagement for the Defense Health Agency on commercializing CyPharx, a saliva-based pharmacogenomic diagnostic test used to personalize Warfarin dosing and reduce preventable adverse drug events. I came into that project as a project manager focused on deliverables. I left it genuinely captivated by the life sciences space, specifically by the gap between what technology can do and what market infrastructure, policy, regulation, and access frameworks actually allow it to do. Not only is life sciences interesting because so often it is about creating solutions to life threatening problems, which I learned within my capstone project, but it is also the matter of the feasibility of the drug or the clinical trial within the market and the business of the product which will allow it to be distributed amongst the patients and other populations which need it. This is a critical problem, exactly the kind which intrigues me, and the kind which bridges all of my former experiences and forces me to step outside of my comfort zone. It was exactly the kind of problem I had been training to think about. That is what brought me to BioBuzz as an Ecosystem Fellow.
What is currently blowing your mind right now?
I am fascinated by breakthroughs happening across completely different industries right now. This past May, for the first time ever, solar energy generated more electricity than coal in the United States during a single month. Which is great news as someone with an interest in sustainable energy as well as emerging technologies, it gives me hope that one day we will be able to fulfill our energy needs through sustainable sources like solar, wind or geothermal.
In space exploration, NASA just launched the Nancy Grace Roman telescope, which will capture vast panoramic views of space with a field of vision 100 times larger than both the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes. I expect the images from the telescopes to be spectacular and unveil insights about space which propel us forward. And on the pop culture side, Victoria Monét are both supposed to release albums in August, which I am really looking forward to, because I love music and going to concerts!
If you could explain yourself right now in only emojis, what would those be?
📚👩🏻💻⚖💃🏻✈
The following emojis are a representation of who I am and what I am working towards. I am a member of a book club and an avid reader, a woman who is a recent grad focused on building her career, someone who always holds her values with the utmost priority, someone who loves exercising , most often dancing to music, and someone who loves to solo travel the world.
If you could travel 10 years into the future, what does your LinkedIn Headline say?
Founder, Investor, and Mentor
As a former entrepreneur, I would like to eventually start my own business and assist by investing in businesses with female founders. I hope that my work experiences within different spaces is able translate into sound mentorship advice. This is because teams with only female founders get 2-3% of all venture capital dollars invested annually. Whereas teams with mixed-gender founding teams secure a higher share, roughly 15% to 20%, this is still amongst the minority. Being a mentor and helping bring others up eventually is something I hope to achieve within 10 years.
What’s on your bucket list?
My bucket list is a mix of personal growth and adventure. I want to move to a big city like NYC or San Francisco, learn how to fly a plane and get my private pilots license, travel to six of the seven continents, and eventually write my own book.
