David Grainger
David Grainger | |
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Born | October 12, 1966 |
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]
External links
- Medicxi Ventures website
- Index Ventures website
- David Grainger on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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