Rich Giersch
Director of Health Sciences Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Commercialization
West Virginia University (WVU)

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.