Maya Jay

Maya Jay is a Senior Associate at Flagship Pioneering, where she leads company creation and origination efforts for Flagship's life science and healthcare ventures. She drives the establishment of the platform science and vision, research and development goals, corporate strategy, and team building. Maya first joined Flagship as a Fellow in 2022 while completing her doctorate.

Prior to her work at Flagship, Maya completed her doctoral research in Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School, where she studied neuromodulatory mechanisms underlying motor control and reinforcement learning, with a focus on the role of dopamine in structuring behavior. Her work was published in Nature and Nature Methods and supported by a NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Individual Predoctoral Research Fellowship. She also held a business development fellowship at Harvard's Office of Technology Development and was a dedicated champion of diversity initiatives across the Harvard Medical ecosystem.

Maya earned her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard University and her B.S. in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.