Dave Messina

Founder and Chief Operating Officer

2016 - Current

I oversee Operations and Production at Cofactor, where we develop and produce RNA-based Molecular Diagnostics and Discovery products.

Senior Venture Partner and co-lead Bio+Health Fund

2022

Senior Venture Partner

2019

Venture Partner

2017 - 2019

Advisor

2020

Member of Selection Committee

2016

Advisor

2017

Advisor

2018

Member of the Board of Trustees

2013 - 2019

Lending my expertise to one of the premier college preparatory boarding schools in the United States. Ranked the #1 Private School in Missouri.

Startup School Advisor

2017 - 2017

I advised 18 startup companies in Y Combinator's first Startup School program.

Chief Operating Officer

2015 - 2016

Director of Analysis

2012 - 2015

Leads Cofactor’s computational research & development program, executing our software and infrastructure strategy Co-director of Operations, planning and coordinating production and personnel Oversees bioinformatics analyses for all clients, from small academic labs to large pharma companies

Core Developer

2010 - 2015

BioPerl is a set of software libraries which keeps biologists from having to spend so much time writing new code in order to answer their research questions. BioPerl still has a pretty steep learning curve for most people, so I'm trying to help make it easier to use.

Developer

2005 - 2010

BioPerl is a set of software libraries which keeps biologists from having to spend so much time writing new code in order to answer their research questions. BioPerl still has a pretty steep learning curve for most people, so I'm trying to help make it easier to use.