Director, West Coast Ventures
Shawna brings a familiarity of the biotech ecosystem from both sides of the table. She is an experienced life science venture capital investor with prior investments in private and public biotech companies, participating in Series A financings through IPO and beyond. She also has Corporate Strategy and Business Development experience and was herself Co-Founder and Scientific Advisor of a bay area startup developing therapeutics for neurological and ocular indications. A biochemist/biophysicist by training, her prior research experience spans the areas of cellular physiology, molecular engineering, synthetic biology and gene therapy.