Vishal Deshmukh
Private Equity Investor at Foresite Capital Management LLC
Profile
At Foresite Capital, Vishal is a member of the investment team and focuses on evaluating investment opportunities in biotech companies.
Vishal comes to Foresite from Kinnate Biopharma, where as Director of Discovery Biology, he led early discovery and development of small molecule Oncology therapeutics.
Prior to Kinnate, Vishal worked at Biosplice Therapeutics as Director of Biology, where he managed programs in several therapeutic areas including Oncology, Musculoskeletal and Dermatology, contributing to multiple IND submissions and a Phase 3 study.
Prior to Biosplice, Vishal was a Visiting Scientist at the California Institute for Biomedical Research (Calibr) and the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF), where he worked on small molecule and biologics discovery and development.
Vishal received his Ph.D.
in Biology from The Scripps Research Institute, where he worked in the lab of Dr. Peter Schultz, and was a California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) graduate research follow.
Vishal holds an M.S.
in Biotechnology from UC Irvine and B.S.
in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai.
Vishal Deshmukh active positions
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Foresite Capital Management LLC
Foresite Capital Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Foresite Capital Management LLC (Foresite Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2010 by James Tananbaum. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco. | Private Equity Investor | - |
Former positions of Vishal Deshmukh
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KINNATE BIOPHARMA INC. | Director/Board Member | - |
Training of Vishal Deshmukh
Institute of Chemical Technology | Undergraduate Degree |
University of California Irvine School of Medicine | Graduate Degree |
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Foresite Capital Management LLC
Foresite Capital Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Foresite Capital Management LLC (Foresite Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2010 by James Tananbaum. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco. | Finance |
Kinnate Biopharma, Inc.
Kinnate Biopharma, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Kinnate Biopharma, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the research and development of Kinnate Discovery Engine that targets genomic drivers of cancer. The company was founded by Stephen W. Kaldor and Eric A. Murphy in January 2018 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA. | Health Technology |
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