David Grainger

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David Grainger
Born (1966-10-12) October 12, 1966 (age 58)
Alma mater Cambridge University
Occupation venture capitalist, Medicxi Ventures, blogger

David Grainger is a partner at Medicxi Ventures, a European life sciences-oriented venture capital firm.[1] He was formerly with Index Ventures, an international venture capital firm with offices in London, Geneva and San Francisco,[2] in the firm’s life sciences practice. He also writes for Forbes.com on topics related to the pharmaceutical industry.[3]

Education

Reared in England, Grainger graduated with degree in Natural Sciences (Biochemistry) from Cambridge University in 1989, and a PhD in Vascular Cell Biology from the same institution in 1992.[4]

Career

After receiving his PhD, Grainger undertook post-doctoral research in the British Heart Foundation Smooth Muscle Cell laboratory at Cambridge University.[5] Following publications in Nature[6] and elsewhere[7] setting out his Protective Cytokine Hypothesis explaining the role of the cytokine TGF-beta 1 in the cardiovascular system,[8] Grainger was appointed principal investigator in the Department of Medicine at his alma mater, Cambridge University, in 1997.[9]

While at Cambridge University, Grainger founded life sciences companies including FingerPrint Diagnostics (2001),[10] and Funxional Therapeutics (2005).[11] FingerPrint Diagnostics merged with SmartBead Technologies to form Pronostics, a molecular diagnostics company, in 2006.[10][12] Funxional Therapeutics, based on an anti-inflammatory drug candidate spun-out from Grainger's Cambridge University lab, became an Index Ventures portfolio company where Grainger also served as chief scientific officer[11] until it was sold to Boehringer Ingelheim in 2012.[13]

Grainger joined Index Ventures in 2012,[14] and a blogger on topics related to the pharmaceutical industry under the pen name “DrugBaron”.[15] where he was involved with funding and advising a variety of companies, including XO1,[16] a biotech company developing an anticoagulant, where he served as chairman and interim CEO before it was sold to Johnson & Johnson[17] [18][19] He co-founded Medicxi Ventures in February 2016 with fellow former Index Ventures partners Francesco De Rubertis, Kevin Johnson and Michele Ollier.[1][20]

Publications and Patents

Grainger has co-authored a number of papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals,[21] including Nature,[6] Science[22] and Nature Medicine.[23]

Grainger formerly blogged under the pen name “DrugBaron” on a range of topics related to the pharmaceutical industry,[24] and now has a column on similar topics on Forbes.com.[3]

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