We’re building a more equitable world where development is locally led
Seeding Labs is an award-winning nonprofit that has spent the last 15 years working to overcome a major barrier to global development: the extreme concentration of scientific capacity in just a handful of countries.
By the numbers:
Institutions Equipped Worldwide
Value of equipment provided (in US dollars)
University Students receiving Hands-on training
Researchers with expanded access to equipment
Our mission: To increase access to resources for science in developing countries
“Our work in the field and the lab requires access to equipment that we simply did not have before. Our goals are ambitious, and they can only be achieved when we have the right instruments to follow through.”
Thabile Ndlovu, PhD
Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Chemistry, University of Eswatini
Our leadership
Melissa P. Wu, PhD
Chief Executive Officer
Please direct speaking requests to media@seedinglabs.org
Melissa is the CEO and a co-founder of Seeding Labs. She began as a volunteer leader of the Harvard Medical School student group; later, as a founding board member…
David Qualter
Vice President of Operations
David is responsible for global logistics at Seeding Labs, overseeing the efficient movement of lab equipment worldwide.
He joined Seeding Labs from Image Arts, a subsidiary of Hallmark Cards, where he provided logistics direction for the company with $110 million in annual…
Our team
Kaitlyn Snyder
Logistics Intern
Our board of directors
Rita Balian Allen
President,
Rita B. Allen Associates
Beata Dragovics
Board Treasurer
Founder,
Freedom Trail Financial
Chad R. Jackson, PhD
Board Chair
Senior Director of
Preclinical and Translational Research,
Foundation Fighting Blindness
Harvey Lodish, PhD
Professor Of Biology,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and Founding Member,
Whitehead Institute
Edward Melia
Managing Partner,
Evolution Global Growth Partners
Aravinda Souza
Board Clerk
Chief Marketing Officer,
RefAssured
Kala Subramanian, PhD
Operating Partner,
Flagship Pioneering
Jessica Toepfer
Global Deployment Lead For Business,
Novartis
Jean-Charles Wirth
Executive Vice President,
Head of Science and Lab Solutions, MilliporeSigma
Melissa P. Wu, PhD
Board President
CEO, Seeding Labs
Our donors
Signature partners
Seeding Labs supporters
- Abcam
- BASF Corporation
- CENTOGENE US
- Cytiva
- DSM
- Harvard University
- Heathrow Scientific
- Heidolph North America
- Helmer Scientific
- Indiana University
- Jeio Tech
- Labconco
- Labcorp
- LaunchWorks
- Marathon LS
- McDonald’s
- Merck
- METTLER TOLEDO
- Neta Scientific
- PolyScience
- Precision Scale & Balance
- Sanofi
- Science 37
- Seaport by WS
- Takeda
- Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Thomas Scientific
- USAID
- Yale University
