In-Woo Park

last updated: 2025/06/05

About

19-year-old on a gap year from Minerva University. ex-startup founder, ex-Novartis

Supported by the Masason Foundation

Contact

inwoopark20@outlook.com

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Instagram

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Essays

Some learnings from building my first startup

2025/01/23

Sirtuins in Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases

2023/01/24 (archive)

Work Experience

Product Development at MaaTRx

2025 – Present scaling a drug shortage prediction algorithm with the highest accuracy in Canada

Product Engineering at MedMe Health (YC W21)

2025 – Present building prototypes for our newer ideas + demo'ing them to enterprises

Founder & CEO at Rx Assist (startup)

2024 – 2025 helped pharmacists resolve drug shortages with my team of 4 pharmacists and a previous director at Shoppers Drug Mart

Head of Marketing at Refoundation

2023 – 2023 marketed an Adobe-backed hackathon, with 400+ participants in 38 countries

Intern at Novartis

2023 – 2023 directly mentored by head of innovation, head of medical affairs, and more here

Marketing at MedTech World

2023 – 2023 started from designing posters all the way to pitches for the government of Malta

Pharmacy Assistant at Shoppers Drug Mart

Feb 2022 – Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos the start of it all - where I became exposed to the issues of healthcare

Education

Bachelor's at Minerva University

(currently on a gap year)

Features

Teen addressing drug shortages with new tool for pharmacists

2024 - Canadian Healthcare Network

Side Projects

Marathon training

2025-2025 for the sakes of side quests - ironman next

Consulting - Carbon credit MRV at Shell

2024-2024 designed a carbon credit MRV system for Shell plc.

Research - Antibiotic synergy drug discovery

2022-2023 discovered an antibiotic combination 12x more effective against E. coli

Film Projects

2025

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2023

Reading Log

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

Charlie Mackesy

The Laws of Human Nature

Robert Greene

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared Diamond

Courage to be Disliked

Fumitake Koga, Ichiro Kishimi

No Longer Human

Osamu Dazai

Lifespan: Why We Age - and Why We Don't Have To

David Sinclair