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Himanshu Sharma

Investor at J.P. Morgan

New York, New York

Overview

Work Experience

  • Healthcare and life science growth equity investor

    2024 - Current

    J.P. Morgan Life Sciences Private Capital invests in early-stage biotherapeutics and late-stage healthcare companies. We seek to work tirelessly alongside entrepreneurs to transform the future of healthcare. The intersection of biology, engineering and computation requires a team with experience across the spectrum.

  • Associate

    2022 - 2024

    Healthcare Private Equity practice

  • Senior Associate

    2022 - 2022

    Helping build companies at the intersection of healthcare and technology. Sourced a pre-seed startup in the surgical communications space, leading to closing the pre-seed round (~€1.2M) Helped with due diligence of a seed stage startup, leading to closing the seed round (~€2M) Led 3 investment thesis with a focus on cardiology, healthcare x Fintech, and vbc in oncology

  • Senior Associate

    2021 - 2022

    Investing member of the digital health team Sourced and led diligence on 1 deal (series A), led diligence on 1 (Series B), and part of 2 other deal teams (Seed, Series A) in healthcare tech and services

  • Summer Investing Fellow

    2021 - 2021

    Part of Northpond Healthcare Tech Team. Focused on Data Liquidity and Digital Cardiology areas

  • Fellow, Healthcare Investment

    2020 - 2021

    Sourced early-stage start-ups and founders across the healthcare tech space Conducted due diligence on companies in clinical informatics, PRO, Genomics/Diagnostics, VR tech, and NLP in Healthcare Developed Investable hypothesis on automated billing/coding and Symptom checker space Conducted end-to-end diligences from founder pitches, writing investment memos, to updating deal flow in CRM system

  • MBA Associate intern

    2020 - 2020

    Conducted due diligence on live venture capital and growth equity deals by looking at the overall market and competitive landscape in virtual clinical trial space; $5M potential investment in a $15M financing Prepared data for presentations to the limited partners for fundraising objectives for Agent Capital Fund II Led sourcing and market development for companies that match the investment criteria; Leveraged pitchbook and set up meetings with founders to facilitate deals and set up a pipeline for 2020/21

  • Watson for Genomics Lead

    2019 - 2020

    Analyze client organization’s processes and workflows to show how Watson technology will positively impact patient care Lead change management activities from project initiation to post go- live optimization to assure adoption Facilitate opportunities of collaborations by brokering trust and understanding among key health/healthcare stakeholders (e.g., academic medical centers, medical associations, non-governmental health agencies, etc.)

  • Scientific Project Manager

    2018 - 2019

    Managed 5 accounts , including company’s largest client, by developing processes to optimize delivery of company’s product, maintaining communications with clients to understand their needs, and implementing strategic solutions to ensure client satisfaction Leveraged technical, scientific, and business skills to collaborate with company’s international teams and lead projects to improve product offering Collaborated with Business Development Managers to lead technical trainings and product demonstrations for new and existing clients

  • Bioinformatics Team Lead

    2018 - 2018

    Mentor and train new staff on the various operational processes, manage 7-10 projects concurrently and monitor progress towards timely delivery of results Deliver presentations on bioinformatics workflows with a focus on innovation and process improvement as it relates to the strategic goals of the center at conferences and internal seminars

  • Bioinformatician 1

    2016 - 2018

    Working and collaborating on Emerge and Babyseq (NIH funded) translational genetics studies Conducting meetings for our operational pipelines. Developing new pipelines and tools for NGS and WES data analysis Ensuring projects and tasks are completed on time.

  • Bioinformatics Associate 2

    2015 - 2016

    In addition to performing the duties as Associate Bioinformatician 1 successfully, I am responsible for : Integrating web services with our current analysis pipelines for clinical annotation and filtration. Driving effort to replace our in-house web application used for tracking, running our NGS targeted panels. Defining testing strategies, validation plans and requirements gathering for various projects. Serving as Liaison between the Research core, Assay development team and Bioinformatics team. Leading outreach effort in hiring new candidates eg. implemented Co-op program with Northeastern University to hire students as interns. Setting up the coverage and annotation/filtration for EMERGE project Working on Automating Novel variant assessment platform to save time and efforts of Geneticists at LMM

  • Bioinformatics Associate 1

    2013 - 2015

    Implemented the Clinical Whole exome sequencing pipeline which included scripting, testing and validation. Currently manage and update the exome workflow. Working with development team on various projects to improve NGS capture methods including flagging pseudogenes and deciding on thresholds/parameters for scripts. Performing regular operations including running filtration queries for geneticists and certain routine tasks. Support Research projects including analysis of RNA-seq , small RNA, microarray and Chip-seq including visualizations (heatmaps, plots etc) and pathway analysis for some projects. Documentation and validation for various clinical workflows that switch over into operations.

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