Anika Gupta Vatsa, PhD

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Bio

Professional summary

Anika Gupta Vatsa is a principal at GV focused on building and investing in biotech companies developing clinically meaningful medicines. She represents GV on the boards of EpiBiologics and Pretzel Therapeutics. Before GV, she helped form biotech startups and developed bioinformatics frameworks at Foundation Medicine and Merck.

Notable companies

Selected portfolio companies the partner has backed

EpiBiologicsPretzel Therapeutics

Background

Career, education, and skills

Career history

GVPrincipalPresent
Foundation MedicineBioinformatics / Startup Formation
MerckBioinformatics / Immunotherapy Response Prediction

Education

Harvard University and Broad Institute of MIT and HarvardPh.D. in Bioinformatics and Genomics
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyB.S. in Computer Science and Molecular Biology

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