As a member of the investment team at Mohr Davidow, KT Moortgat brings her experience enabling university entrepreneurs and translating discovery into commercial markets. She identifies and engages innovators, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders in the firm's investment areas, and supports the development of new investment opportunities. KT also manages the MDV Innovators Award.

Prior to Mohr Davidow, KT was founding director of the Center for BioEntrepreneurship, within UC San Francisco and affiliated with the QB3 Institute. She established the hub of UCSF's training and networking for entrepreneurial scientists and clinicians, including the popular "Idea to IPO ... and Beyond" course; and mentored dozens of faculty and students in commercializing life science technologies. At UCSF, she also worked closely with the Executive Vice Chancellor on strategy and implementation of industry-academic partnerships.

KT is on advisory committee for the Kauffman Foundation Postdoctoral Entrepreneur Award. She is a mentor for UC Berkeley Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology, and mentor and speaker for the UCSF Center for BioEntrepreneurship. She has advised NIH and NSF on funding entrepreneurial scientists and their innovations.

KT earned a doctorate in Biophysics for research conducted at the Salk Institute and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and masters and undergraduate degrees in Physics at UC San Diego and Berkeley, respectively. At UC San Francisco she was a Sloan Postdoctoral Fellow.

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