Tyler R. Wanke, MD, MBA, MEM/MSDI is an investor, entrepreneur, and professor. Tyler invests in MedTech ventures as an angel investor and on behalf of his family office. He is CEO & Co-founder of Madison Scientific (MadSci), a start-up developing electromechanical “smart” medical devices for treating neurologic disorders. He previously co-founded and serves on the board of Innoblative, a breast cancer therapeutic medical device company spun out of Northwestern, and EDGe Surgical, a revenue-stage Orthopaedic and Spine medical device company.

Tyler is an adjunct professor at Northwestern University where he teaches medical technology innovation and entrepreneurship to graduate engineering, medical, and business students. He completed an MD from Feinberg School of Medicine, MBA from Kellogg School of Management, a Masters of Engineering Management (MEM) / Masters of Science of Design Innovation (MSDI) from McCormick School of Engineering, and a BS in Neurobiology from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Tyler volunteers with Cures Within Reach (CWR), a non-profit dedicated to funding research of “re-purposed” drugs and devices to cure diseases.