About Us

Wendy Webber Nelson, PhD, is the President and Founder of the Boston Biotech Forum, a dinner discussion group initiated in 2011 to address pertinent industry topics with technical experts from many local biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies while also incorporating an element of networking. Participation is by invitation only, and each event is limited to 50-65 people to maintain an intimate and collaborative setting for presentation and discussion of relevant subjects. The distribution list includes about 2000 professionals from more than 600 biotech and pharma companies, venture capital and sponsor companies.  Along with running the Boston Biotech Forum, Wendy currently works full-time as Managing Partner at Dreavent Capital, is on the board of SciShield, is a Business Advisor for ModernVivo and Cytimmune Biosciences, and is a Venture Partner for Waterman Ventures.  The Boston Biotech Forum has multiple sponsors, including Banc of CA, BDO, ChemPartner, JP Morgan, Ardigen, Bowdoin Group, Insperity, Lilly, Goodwin, J&J, Evotec, and LabCorp. Wendy has over 25 years of business development, project management, operational, and R&D experience in biotechnology and large pharma companies, as well as in global CROs. Prior to assuming her position at Dreavent Capital, Wendy was Chief Business Officer at Danforth Advisor and prior to that, CEO of LeadingBiotech, an organization that ran executive level conferences in the life science space around the US and in Europe.  Earlier in her career, Wendy spent about 12 years in business development roles of increasing responsibility for various CROs, including Frontage Laboratories, inVentiv, Worldwide Clinical Trials and QPS. Prior to her roles in business development, Wendy was with Alantos Pharmaceuticals where she was responsible for Project Management and Operations of the two company programs and facilitated the post-merger integration following the $300M acquisition of Alantos by Amgen in 2007. She began her career in R&D at Alkermes, where she worked in formulation development.

Wendy (WL Webber) is an inventor on multiple patents and patent applications, and is the senior author of a number of scientific publications. Wendy served several years on the organizational committees for both the Progeria Research Foundation and MIT Enterprise Forum.  She has also participated in the MassCONNECT mentoring program through MassBio.  Dr. Nelson received her ScB and MS in Engineering and PhD in Medical Sciences all from Brown University.