Brandy Houser

Brandy is currently serving as the Investment Director at Accelerate New York, a pre-seed fund that is actively investing in start-ups based in the downstate New York region. She is also responsible for operations of the New York City office of Celdara Medical, including sourcing and vetting new pipeline assets and the development of a portfolio of early stage life science technologies. Previously, Brandy was an investment Associate at Brandon Capital Partners, an Australian venture capital firm and the Alliance Manager for Partners Healthcare, the corporate entity that oversees operations for the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. During this time she managed technologies from both hospitals as well as programs for Pfizer’s Center for Therapeutic Innovation. She also helped to create the business and operations plan for The Human Translational Immunology Center at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Brandy received her Ph.D. in Immunology from Harvard University and her B.S. In Biochemistry from Rutgers University.