Nina Dudnik

Overview

Nina Dudnik is the founder and CEO of Seeding Labs, a nonprofit organization training great research scientists in the developing world. Since 2003, Seeding Labs has provided resources for research to scientists in 16 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa and India. The organization's work has been featured in a wide range of media including NPR, the Boston Globe, MassHighTech, The Kenyan Standard, and Chemical and Engineering News. Nina decided at a very early age to become a scientist and to use science for humanitarian impact. Nina has a Bachelors of Science in biochemistry from Brown University, a PhD in molecular biology from Harvard University and has worked for the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research in Italy and in Cote d'Ivoire where she was a Fulbright scholar. While working with inspiring scientists from every part of the world and in labs on three continents, she was struck by their talent, the disparities in material resources they faced, and the lack of collaboration between scientists globally. Nina founded Seeding Labs to help universities around the world become first-class scientific research institutions, and ensure that scientists everywhere have the tools and the training to pursue great research. For her work with Seeding Labs, Nina was named a 2010 PopTech Social Innovation Fellow and 2010 TED Fellow.