Entrepreneur-in-residence
RA Capital Management, Massachusetts, United States
Jesse Chen, Ph.D is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at RA Capital Management. In this role he works closely with RA’s Venture Team to evaluate various drug discovery platforms and initiate novel therapeutics programs. Jesse has more than a decade of discovery research and management experience, from early discovery through preclinical development. Most recently, Jesse co-founded Avilar Therapeutics and led discovery research until its $60M seed financing. Prior to joining RA, Jesse was Senior Director of Discovery at Kymera Therapeutics. As the first and founding member of Kymera’s scientific team, Jesse was responsible for building the company’s industry-leading targeted protein degradation platform and pipeline, and he helped secure the company’s Series A and B financings as well as a partnership with Vertex. Jesse also held research leadership roles at Moderna Therapeutics and Millennium Pharmaceuticals, where he was responsible for developing novel platforms and leading discovery programs. Jesse earned his Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry from MIT and was a Harvard Origins Research Fellow.
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Monday, February 7, 2022
4:30 PM – 5:00 PM