Primary Job Title Co-founder, President & CMO Primary Organization 
Enterin
Location Greater New York Area, United States, North America Regions East Coast Gender Female
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Professor of Neurology & Former Chief of Neurovascular Division at Weill-Cornell Medical College. Founder, Chair, and CEO of several med-tech and biotech companies. Holder of close to 200 patents.
Dr. Barbut was brought up in Istanbul, Turkey. She trained as an internist and subsequently as a neurologist in Great Britain and the USA. She
received her bachelor’s degree from University College London and her Medical Degree from University College Hospital. She did her post-graduate training at Imperial College, the Royal Brompton Hospital and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queens’ Square. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom. She completed her neurologic training at Weill-Cornell Medical Center- Cornell University Medical College and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Subsequently she became an Attending Physician at New York Hospital and Professor of Neurology at Cornell University. She was Chief of the Neurovascular Division and of the Stroke Research Program.
She left academia in 2000 after founding the second of her 5 companies. Dr. Barbut is sole author or lead author on close to 200 issued or pending patents, mostly relating to methods for neuroprotection, cerebral hypothermia, the treatment of cerebral ischemia, pain, neuromodulation, Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. She is also the lead or senior author on over 100 peer-reviewed articles and abstracts. She has been involved in founding, funding and running biotech companies for 20 years.
She recently co-founded Enterin, where she serves as President and CMO. She is also Board Chair at Novo Therapeutics, Sarentis Therapeutics and Muse and Board member at Israel Brain Technologies.
