Johannes Fruehauf (MD PhD) is a physician-scientist and life-science entrepreneur. He is the Founder and CEO of Biolabs and LabCentral, the national network for biotech incubators and the largest co-working spaces for life-science startup companies. Together, Biolabs/LabCentral have helped launch over 850 venture funded startup companies in the life sciences in 16 different cities and a presence in the US, Germany, France and Japan. The concept of these facilities is built around openness, transparency and shared resources and has changed the way biotech companies are built in the US. Companies launched at Biolabs/LabCentral have raised over $30bn in venture capital financing since 2010. Dr. Fruehauf is a Founding General Partner at Mission BioCapital, an early stage venture capital fund providing capital to start-up companies in the life sciences. Dr. Fruehauf studied Medicine in Germany and France. He practiced medicine (internal medicine and OB/Gyn) for several years in Germany before coming to Boston for a post-doc at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School. He is an author of 30 peer reviewed articles in the medical literature and inventor on numerous issued and pending patents.