Chad Womack

Dr. Chad Womack is the Senior Director of STEM Initiatives and leads the HBCU Innovation, Commercialization and Entrepreneurship (HBCU I.C.E.) at the UNCF. Dr. Womack launched the HBCU Innovation, Commercialization and Entrepreneurship in partnership with the White House Office of Science, Technology and Policy (OSTP), White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and the Association for Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU). At the UNCF, Dr. Womack has raised over $50M and manages a STEM program portfolio that has a $2.5M annual budget. The program portfolio includes the STEM Scholars Program, the Annual HBCU Silicon Valley Summit, UNCF TechVentures, the Ernest E. Just Institute for the Life Sciences that includes the UNCF Bristol-Myers-Squibb E.E. Just Postgraduate
Fellowship Program in the Life Sciences and the newly launched pilot HBCU Bioscience Education Hub Project. In addition, Dr. Womack manages partnerships with several tech companies including Genentech, Google, Facebook and others.

Prior to joining the UNCF, Dr. Womack Co-Founded The America21 Project and DC Innovates, both innovation-based community and economic development nonprofit organizations dedicated to empowering metro-centers and underserved communities through STEM education, tech- entrepreneurship and access to capital. Dr. Womack also founded the Philadelphia Biotechnology and Life Sciences Institute as a nonprofit initiative dedicated to addressing unmet educational and workforce development needs of the City of Philadelphia.

As a bio-entrepreneur, Dr. Womack co-founded 3GEN Vaccines – a nano-biotechnology company. Prior to his entrepreneurial ventures, Dr. Womack completed several research fellowships at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), most recently at the National Institutes for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Vaccine Research Center (VRC) and at the Harvard AIDS Institute at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases.

Dr. Womack earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from the Morehouse School of Medicine, and is a proud graduate of Morehouse College where he was a Biology and Chemistry major. Dr. Womack resides with his family in his home city of Philadelphia, PA.