David Yang

Investment Team

2024 - Current

Co-founder, Head of Ops & Strategy

2022 - 2024

Investment Team

2020 - 2024

Early-stage life sciences investments & incubations. Select portfolio: Photys Tx, Dren Bio, Latus Bio, Atomic AI (Board Observer), Unlearn AI (Board Observer), Tilda Research (Board Observer), Flywheel (Board Observer), Latent Labs (Board Observer), Portal Bio, Orchestra Bio Started the Bio-IT Fellowship to partner with entrepreneurial scientists: https://www.8vc.com/bio-it-fellowship

Research Associate

2017 - 2020

RNA targeting CRISPR systems for viral diagnostics and surveillance at the Pardis Sabeti lab * HC Metsky et al. Nature Biotechnology (2022) * DS Griesemer et al. Cell (2021) * CM Ackerman and C Myhrvold et al. Nature (2020) * DK Yang et al. Machine Learning in Computational Biology (2019) * HC Metsky and KJ Siddle et al. Nature Biotechnology (2019) https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=09tlyHEAAAAJ&hl