BioVenture VoiCes with Chris Garabedian
Episodes
Episode 37: SR One's Simeon George
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Simeon George discusses his early days at SR One while it was part of GSK, and the transition to making the firm independent in 2020. Plus, the import...
Episode 36: Sofinnova Invetments' Jim Healy
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
He discusses learnings from his decades in venture at Sofinnova Investments including 'products vs platform', therapeutics areas of interest, ...
Episode 35: INITIATE Ventures' Jessica Owens
23 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jessica Owens discusses the many experiences she has had in her career, including working on the venture side at Kleiner Perkins and Versant Ventures ...
Episode 34: General Atlantic's Brett Zbar
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Brett Zbar describes his early career, including working at Aisling Capital and Foresight Capital, and now managing the healthcare strategy at General...
Episode 33: Pappas Capital's Art Pappas
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Art Pappas describes his early career, which involved numerous overseas posts for large companies, and how it let him to eventually found Pappas Capit...
Episode 32: ARCH Venture Partners' Bob Nelsen
11 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
While describing his early life in Washington and formative years at the University of Chicago that led to the founding of ARCH, he shares his thought...
Episode 31: Polaris Partners' Amy Schulman
29 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
She describes her career beginnings as a lawyer, which led to general counsel and business unit head roles at Pfizer, and then joining the VC world at...
Episode 30: F-Prime Capital Senior Managing Partner Stephen Knight
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
He describes his early life and career experiences at Bell Labs, consulting work, and EPIX Pharmaceuticals before landing in his true interest, ventur...
Episode 29: Averin Managing Partner David Berry
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
He describes his early life and education, 18 years of company building at Flagship Pioneering, founding Averin (previously called Bedford Bridge) wit...
Episode 28: Hatteras Venture Partners' Clay Thorp
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Clay Thorp describes his early education and becoming a business partner to his brother on a genomics startup. He describes the genesis of Hatteras, t...
Episode 27: Avalon Bioventures' Jay Lichter
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jay Lichter describes his roots growing up in Chicago, Yale, and an early career role at DuPont Merck before getting a call from Kevin Kinsella to try...
Episode 26: venBio's Corey Goodman
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Corey Goodman shares learnings for his career in biotech, including working in academia, biotech, pharma, and as a venture capital investor. He descri...
Episode 25: Atlas Venture's Bruce Booth
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bruce Booth discusses his education and early career, the structure of Atlas and the types of investments it makes, investing in assets vs platforms, ...
Episode 24: Samsara Biocapital's Srini Akkaraju
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Founder & Managing Partner of Samsara Biocapital, Dr. Akkaraju describes his early move from Standford to industry and various investment firm...
Episode 23: a16z's Vineeta Agarwala
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Still a practicing physician today, Vineeta Agarwala describes her educational background and early career, including experiences at the Broad Institu...
Episode 22: Adjuvant Capital's Glenn Rockman
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Glenn Rockman describes the introduction to impact investing he gained from working for J.P. Morgan and along with the Gates Foundation on the Global ...
Episode 21: Scion Life Sciences' Aaron Kantoff
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Kantoff describes the road on the public markets side that eventually led him to venture, and recalls successful investments he helped lead at f...
Episode 20: Breakout Ventures' Lindy Fishburne
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lindy Fishburne describes her educational background and career, and transitioning from the philanthropic Breakout Labs within the Thiel Foundation to...
Episode 19: Longwood Fund's Christoph Westphal
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Westphal describes his upbringing and early career at McKinsey and Polaris, founding or co-founding companies like Momenta, Alnylam, Sirtris, Acce...
Episode 18: Playground Global's Jory Bell
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jory Bell shares the details of his expansive educational background and early career, which included being a product designer at Apple during the ret...
Episode 17: Norwest Venture Partners' Tiba Aynechi
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tiba Aynechi describes her career path, which has been spent entirely in the Bay Area since she earned her PhD from UCSF in the early 2000's. She ...
Episode 16: RA Capital's Josh Resnick
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Resnick describes his career path, which includes working on the venture side of both private funds and pharma (Merck). He explains the different...
Episode 15: Mission BioCapital's Steve Tregay
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Tregay describes his career path, including how early roles at Array BioPharma and Novartis led him to found Forma Therapeutics. He describes th...
Episode 14: Aditum Bio's Joe Jimenez
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Jimenez describes the career path in consumer products that led him to pharma, his time running Novartis, and the idea to co-found Aditum Bio with...
Episode 13: Civilization Ventures' Shahram Seyedin-Noor
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Shahram describes his upbringing as a refugee from Iran, his early career in law and banking, and how his initial experience in the tech industry has ...
Episode 12: Flagship Pioneering's Avak Kahvejian
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A General Partner at Flagship Pioneering, Avak describes his upbringing and studies in the Middle East and Montreal, Canada, working in industry at He...
Episode 11: Pillar VC's Tony Kulesa
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A Partner at Pillar VC, Tony describes his start at MIT, founding the MIT BioMakerspace, his work at Petri, being an early supporter of Nucleate, and ...
Episode 10: Curie.Bio's Alexis Borisy
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Co-Founder and Operating Chairman of Curie.Bio, and serial entrepreneur, shares experiences from his early life, CombinatoRx, Foundation Medicine,...
Episode 9: Alloy Therapeutics & 82VS's Errik Anderson
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
He describes his career path and learnings from the tech industry, co-founding Adimab, the work that Alloy and 82VS do to support and invest in scient...
Episode 8: Canaan Partners' Julie Grant
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A general partner the firm, she describes her career path, including time spent at Goldman Sachs and Genentech, before landing at Canaan over a decade...
Episode 7: MPM BioImpact's Ansbert Gadicke
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
MPM's founder and managing partner discusses the firm's 30+ years of investing in life sciences, including the philosophy of placing entrepren...
Episode 6: Omega Funds' Otello Stampacchia
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
He describes his career path, including time in the lab and doing quant work at Goldman Sachs. Plus, what he has learned about VC investing and biotec...
Episode 5: KdT Ventures' Founder and Managing Partner Cain McClary
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
He describes this path to venture investing from his start in science at the NIH to becoming a pathologist, and eventually raising a modest first fund...
Episode 4: Enavate Sciences’ Sara Nayeem
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sara Nayeem describes her career path and how different firms she has worked for have had different approaches to investing. She introduces us to Enav...
Episode 3: Time BioVentures' D.A. Wallach
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
D.A. Wallach describes how he went from music to healthcare/biotech investing, and the similarities he sees between the two industries. Plus, the firm...
Episode 2: Westlake BioPartners’ Beth Seidenberg
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Beth Seidenberg tells the story of how her career went from physician, to product development in industry, to investor. She describes the qualities sh...
Episode 1: Venrock's Bryan Roberts
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bryan Roberts discusses Venrock's history, moving from NYC to the Bay Area, his investment philosophy, portfolio construction and concentration, the t...