Rich Giersch Rich Giersch is the Director of Health Sciences Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Commercialization for West Virginia University (WVU). After graduating from WVU he attended UNC-Chapel Hill for graduate school. He has held Director level positions at two venture capital firms, was the chief operating officer of a biotech company in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina and the Chief Science Officer for the New Jersey Center for Biomaterials. He has helped companies secure over $100 million in federal funding, tax, and relocation incentives and is a founder and CEO of CereDx a company developing precision diagnostics for brain injury. |