General Partner at Polaris Partners. Focus includes healthcare, consumer products and energy.
Boston
Joined December 2012
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Congratulations to the ByHeart team for launching their product: ByHeart No-Compromise Nutrition Infant Formula byheart.com/
Wonderful accomplishment by a wonderful team! @Angiejyou , Darcy Mootz, Volker Schellenberger and so many others put their heart and soul into this company. Thanks to Rich Heyman and Jamie Topper for leading the board and syndicate!
Pouncing on next-gen I/O play, Sanofi acquires Amunix for $1B+ and picks up 'universal mask' tech
By @AmberTongPW
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Interesting ideas coming together in Portland! Wonderful effort, Lars!
Come to our AMA tomorrow and learn about the inaugural program of the @RouxInstitute Techstars accelerator: crowdcast.io/e/the-roux-inst…
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Very well deserved recognition for Yvonne and several other fantastic #biotech and #lifesciences leaders! Congratulations to all! #leadership
Congratulations to our President and COO Dr. Yvonne Greenstreet on being named a 2020 Women Who Mean Business honoree by @BosBizJournal. #AlnylamProud bizjournals.com/boston/news/…
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It’s wonderful to see Jennifer and Emmanuelle recognized with the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry. The seminal “Jinek et al.” paper they published together has been cited >9,500 times—approximately once every 8 hours since its publication in 2012. (1/3)
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Continually amazed by the drive and passion of the Freenome team!
The $270 million Series C financing announced today positions Freenome for the next stage of growth, advancing disruptive technology so that a simple blood test can be used for #cancerscreening.
It’s amazing what the most talented people in the world can do, even when constrained — to a bath tub, in this case. facebook.com/BBCArtsOnline/v…
Proud of Polaris companies @SQZBiotech @GlympseBio and @dewpoint_tx for being included amongst amazing companies, entrepreneurs and visions. We are lucky to be part of an amazing industry!
.@AndrewE_Dunn and I teamed up to poll top biotech VCs on which startups they think will take off in the next 12 months (naming one in their portfolio and one outside).
Here's who they named: businessinsider.com/biotech-…
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1) There is a lot of talk about decaying antibodies. I would like to walk you through a few findings about antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 that we put on medRxiv on Friday. Ill do this slowly over the day (while being in nonstop conference calls). But I feel this needs to get out there.
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Jnana cofounders Joanne Kotz (CEO) and Joel Barrish (CSO) share the road that led to today’s milestone collaboration with Roche: building the first company and drug discovery platform targeting SLC transporters. #SLCs jnanatx.com/the-gateway-blog…
Congrats to @Merck and @dewpoint_tx for starting a new partnership and approach to an important unmet need!
Thrilled to be teaming up with @Merck and putting our platform to work translating the science of biomolecular condensates and phase transition into a brand-new kind of HIV treatment.
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Great time sharing the zoom stage with @robperez32 and Aremin @ThirdRockV!
We want to thank @RobPerez32, @VCAmir, and Aremin Hacobian from @ThirdRockV for sharing their insights at the Project Onramp professional development session yesterday. Here is a taste of what Rob talked about with the summer 2020 interns.
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Forced by the pandemic, health care plunges into the digital age - all it took was changing regulatory barriers- The Boston Globe bostonglobe.com/2020/06/12/m…
Beautiful poem by Richard Blanco.
Thanks to David Shaw for the recommendation!
This #SundayMorning, I'm over-the-moon excited to share my new poem, "Say This Isn't the End," featured in The Atlantic!
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Volunteer efforts have popped up across the country to help ease the lingering isolation of the pandemic among older Americans, creating connections and unexpected friendships. nyti.ms/30uUz2R
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For those who are interested in research-based solutions to stop police violence, here’s what you need to know - based on the facts and data. A thread. (1/x)
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Covid19 testing in the U.S. continues to expand, and the positivity rate decline nationally.
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BIDMC proud: research led by Dan Barouch, MD, PhD, Director of Virology and Vaccine Research, is on the front page of both the @BostonGlobe and @nytimes today. Learn more about the #COVID19 vaccine prototypes making headlines: bit.ly/3cNDAMx
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IPI is officially fighting #COVID-19 with #SyntheticPeptides that neutralize #SARS-CoV-2 incorporated into engineered #nanostructures for use in disinfecting aerosols. Congrats to IPI’s Chris Bahl and Phil Demokritou @HarvardChanSPH for scoring @NSFgrant.
ALT Image of synthetic peptide bound to SARS-CoV-2 protein