Dr. Lawrence Jones, Ph.D. is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Biotechnology Health Management and Care LLC in Pikesville, MD. He earned his doctorate from Regent University in the School of Business and Leadership with a concentration in Entrepreneurial Leadership. His doctoral research explored “An Exploratory Quantitative Comparison of Direct Reports’ Perceptions of Entrepreneurial Leadership of Biotechnology Founders Versus Nonbiotechnology Founders.”
Dr. Jones tested for empirical evidence to distinguish the entrepreneurial leadership behaviors of the biotech entrepreneur. He is also a graduate of Webster University with a B.A. in biology, a graduate of the Masters in Biotechnology program from the Johns Hopkins University and a graduate of the University of Maryland at Baltimore County (UMBC) Masters in Public Policy.
Dr. Jones has received Certificates in Entrepreneurship from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Innovate Program and in Business Development from the National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps lean customer discovery program. He also completed additional continued education training through Harvard School of Medicine. His vast professional employment experiences by way of laboratory technical positions from the bench to managerial level positions.
His work expertise spans over time at the Washington University School of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and in industry via the Rockville, Maryland bio space arena with the BioReliance Corporation and in consulting for emerging start-up bioengineering technologies. He is also a member of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (SoPE).
Dr. Jones also the Chief Science Officer for newly created Idhni Incorporated, a digital health company in Baltimore, MD. Idhini’s digital health platform captures health related attitudes sentiments and voices of the BIPOC community to create access to healthy options through positive health outcomes and health literacy.