Nicholas C.
Co-founder and Advisor
Experience
Co-founder and Advisor
Tesseract Medicines
Venture Fellow
Arkitekt Ventures
Conduct diligence and market landscaping for healthcare/life science companies.
Source early-stage innovation from academic labs, incubators, and emerging biotechs.
Drug Discovery Consultant
Ligo Therapeutics
- Providing medicinal chemistry and scientific strategy support for AI-driven discovery of covalent small-molecule drugs.
Co-founder
Tiago Therapeutics
Developed company thesis focused on transcription factor-targeted therapeutics.
Led scientific direction and investor engagement.
Co-founder and Head of Platform Technology
Tesseract Medicines
Led medicinal chemistry and platform strategy for a novel covalent modality; advanced first asset to in vivo proof-of-concept.
Played key leadership role in shaping scientific narrative for fundraising efforts totaling $20M (Curie.Bio, Gordian Ventures).
Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Gordian Ventures
- Conducted scientific diligence and strategic planning for biotech newco formation.
Principal Scientist - Medicinal Chemistry
Triana Biomedicines
- Founding team member responsible for chemistry activities related to initial screening, platform development, and lead program optimization through to $110 mil Series A raise.
Investigator II - Medicinal Chemistry
H3 Biomedicine
Initiated and led small-molecule degrader program.
Supported lead optimization for epigenetic and ADC programs in oncology.
Investigator - Medicinal Chemistry
GlaxoSmithKline
Hit-to-lead and lead optimization for target classes within immuno-inflammation.
Member of team to nominate development candidate for RORY inverse agonist.
Investigator - Process Chemistry
GlaxoSmithKline
- Developed manufacturing route for the preparation of tapinarof scaled to over 100 kg.
Languages
Education
Yale University
Ph.D. · Chemistry · United States
St. Lawrence University
B.S. · Chemistry · United States
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