Joseph V. Bonventre, M.D., Ph.D. has been a director since February 2008.

Dr. Bonventre has been the Director of the Renal Division of the Brigham and Women's Hospital since 2002, and has been the Robert H. Ebert Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the past ten years. He has also been elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and is a member of the Council of the American Society of Nephrology.

Dr. Bonventre became the Chair of the Kidney Group of the Harvard Stem Cell Initiative in 2004 and the co-chair of the Stem Cell, Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering Center of the Brigham and Women's Hospital Research Institute in 2005 and co-chair of the Technology in Medicine initiative at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in 2007. Dr. Bonventre has also been a charter member of the Board of Directors of the National Space Biology Research Institute and the Board of Advisors of the Dean of the School of Engineering at Cornell University for the past ten and five years, respectively.

He also co-founded Patientkeeper Inc., a provider of integrated physician information systems, during the 1990s and Pacific Biosciences, Inc., a private biotechnology company, in 2002, and has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of a number of biotechnology companies.

Dr. Bonventre holds a B.S. in Engineering Physics from Cornell University and an M.D. and Ph.D. in Biophysics from Harvard University.