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BioVenture VoiCes with Chris Garabedian

Hosted by Chris Garabedian, meet the leading Voices in the BioVenture community and hear their insights and perspectives on the challenges and successes with VC investing.

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01:02:40

Episode 31: Polaris Partners' Amy Schulman

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2025/12/29

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 Polaris Partners (at Bob Langer's urging). She discusses the firm's investment philosophy, the nuances behind how companies choose lead assets, and the cycles biotech has been through over the last ten years. Plus, other roles she currently serves, including being the chair of Alnylam.

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01:19:06

Episode 29: Averin Managing Partner David Berry

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2025/12/01

He describes his early life and education, 18 years of company building at Flagship Pioneering, founding Averin (previously called Bedford Bridge) with his brother, and investing at the intersection of healthcare and technology.

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01:00:57

Episode 28: Hatteras Venture Partners' Clay Thorp

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2025/11/10

Clay Thorp describes his early education and becoming a business partner to his brother on a genomics startup. He describes the genesis of Hatteras, the history and strengths of the life sciences ecosystem in the North Carolina area, and his philosophy of backing founders.

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Episode 27: Avalon Bioventures' Jay Lichter

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2025/10/20

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 the world of venture at Avalon. Since that pivotal move, he describes numerous companies he either operated or funded, leading to his work today at Avalon Bioventures.

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01:21:15

Episode 26: venBio's Corey Goodman

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2025/10/06

Corey Goodman shares learnings for his career in biotech, including working in academia, biotech, pharma, and as a venture capital investor. He describes the unique learnings from all of them and why he is thankful that he has experienced these different components of life sciences.

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01:18:13

Episode 25: Atlas Venture's Bruce Booth

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2025/09/22

Bruce Booth discusses his education and early career, the structure of Atlas and the types of investments it makes, investing in assets vs platforms, and more.

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01:12:54

Episode 24: Samsara Biocapital's Srini Akkaraju

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2025/08/11

The Founder & Managing Partner of Samsara Biocapital, Dr. Akkaraju describes his early move from Standford to industry and various investment firms he worked for before founding Samsara in 2016. He discusses how the firm invests in all stages of life sciences companies and why he believes patience is a key virtue.

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Episode 23: a16z's Vineeta Agarwala

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2025/07/28

Still a practicing physician today, Vineeta Agarwala describes her educational background and early career, including experiences at the Broad Institute, Flatiron Health, and GV (Google Ventures). She talks about a16z's investment philosophy of "providing more than just a check," and a recent $500M fund partnered with Lilly.

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01:12:41

Episode 22: Adjuvant Capital's Glenn Rockman

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2025/06/30

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 Health Investment Fund, and how the idea of investing for public good ultimately sparked Adjuvant Capital in 2019. Armed with a $300M+ fund that was raised from numerous foundations and for-profit funds in 2021, Adjuvant has been investing in public health technologies, post proof of concept, to help accelerate their development and ultimately make

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01:10:30

Episode 21: Scion Life Sciences' Aaron Kantoff

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2025/06/16

Aaron Kantoff describes the road on the public markets side that eventually led him to venture, and recalls successful investments he helped lead at firms like Apple Tree Partners and Medicxi, such as Stoke Therapeutics, Akero Therapeutics, Centessa Pharmaceuticals, and RayzeBio. He discusses founding Scion with his partner, Samuel Hall, and describes raising their first fund and how the firm has a longer outlook than is traditionally thought of in venture.

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01:07:44

Episode 20: Breakout Ventures' Lindy Fishburne

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2025/06/02

Lindy Fishburne describes her educational background and career, and transitioning from the philanthropic Breakout Labs within the Thiel Foundation to Breakout Ventures, a traditional venture firm that has a diverse set of limited partners. Plus, how she is navigating these challenging times in healthcare and biotech.

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01:03:21

Episode 19: Longwood Fund's Christoph Westphal

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2025/05/19

Dr. Westphal describes his upbringing and early career at McKinsey and Polaris, founding or co-founding companies like Momenta, Alnylam, Sirtris, Acceleron, and VeraStem, and creating the Longwood Fund. He shares his thoughts on venture investing, the current environment in biotech, focusing on creating new medicines, and his love of the Boston ecosystem.

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01:16:53

Episode 18: Playground Global's Jory Bell

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2025/05/05

Jory Bell shares the details of his expansive educational background and early career, which included being a product designer at Apple during the return of Steve Jobs. He describes Playground's engineering and tech angle to investing in life sciences, and weighs in on sizable seed and pre-seed investments the industry has seen lately that get startups to a proof of concept.

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Episode 17: Norwest Venture Partners' Tiba Aynechi

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2025/04/21

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 describes the value of BD experience she earned while working on licensing deals early in her career, her more than a decade at Novo Ventures, and what appealed to her to join Norwest. Plus, her thoughts on a board of directors' relationship with management teams.

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01:12:09

Episode 16: RA Capital's Josh Resnick

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2025/04/07

Josh Resnick describes his career path, which includes working on the venture side of both private funds and pharma (Merck). He explains the different investment strategies of RA Capital, and talks about how the firm's Raven company building incubator fits in. Plus, his thoughts on venture investing in the current environment.

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Episode 15: Mission BioCapital's Steve Tregay

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2025/03/24

Steve Tregay describes his career path, including how early roles at Array BioPharma and Novartis led him to found Forma Therapeutics. He describes the founding and growth of LabCentral, for which he is still the chairman today, and how getting a look at entrepreneurs at such an early stage naturally led to the investment work that he and his partners do at Mission BioCapital.

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01:13:25

Episode 14: Aditum Bio's Joe Jimenez

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2025/03/10

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 his partner Mark Fishman. He explains Aditum's investment philosophy, and why they like focusing on translational medicine opportunities that are just heading into the clinic. Plus, his thoughts on making R&D more efficient.

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Episode 13: Civilization Ventures' Shahram Seyedin-Noor

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2025/02/24

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 benefitted his eye towards life sciences. He recalls founding Civilization Ventures with an initial $1M fund, and talks about what it has quickly grown into today, Plus, his take on AI and the current state of tech bio.

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Episode 12: Flagship Pioneering's Avak Kahvejian

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2025/02/17

A General Partner at Flagship Pioneering, Avak describes his upbringing and studies in the Middle East and Montreal, Canada, working in industry at Helicos, and co-founding companies at Flagship since 2011. He discusses Flagship's unique platform of company building and innovation.

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Episode 11: Pillar VC's Tony Kulesa

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2025/01/27

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 his philosophy of not being overly influenced by what is in vogue today.

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