Jenna Hebert

Senior Venture Associate

2023 - Current

Senior Associate

2023 - 2023

Associate

2021 - 2023

RA Capital Management® (“RA Capital”) is a multi-stage investment manager dedicated to evidence-based investing in public and private healthcare and life science companies that are developing drugs, medical devices, and diagnostics. The flexibility of its strategy allows RA Capital® to provide seed funding to startups and to lead private, IPO, and follow-on financings for its portfolio companies, both facilitating the crossover process and allowing management teams to drive value creation with fewer capital concerns from inception through commercialization.

Senior Medical Writer

2021 - 2021

• Led project teams to deliver scientific communications and medical affairs activities for clients in the pharmaceutical/biotech industry • Developed publications, advisory boards, congress materials, medical information, and strategic communications plans • Leveraged scientific expertise and communications skills to adapt scientific content and messaging for diverse audiences • Set project strategy and guide junior team members to ensure high quality and alignment with clients’ objectives • Supported clients’ real-world evidence studies and perform systematic literature reviews • Liaised with external key opinion leaders for input on medical affairs projects • Built and maintain relationships with clients to ensure strong, continuing partnerships • Balanced multiple ongoing projects, deadlines, clients, and therapeutic areas in a fast-paced environment

Analyst

2020 - 2021

Doctoral Student

2016 - 2020

• Provided novel evidence that a prebiotic-rich perinatal diet in mice can influence offspring anxiety and depression, brain gene expression, immune function, and the gut microbiome • Collaborated with four research groups across Oxford for an interdisciplinary thesis • Learned and shared new experimental techniques with research group, including 1H NMR metabolomics and sequencing analysis • Published research in peer-reviewed publications and presented to peers at academic conferences and regular lab meetings • Supervised master’s and undergraduate research students to completion of theses • Engaged in science communication activities, including blogs and public science events; awarded prize in Biochemical Society science communication competition

Undergraduate Researcher

2015 - 2016

Undergraduate Researcher

2013 - 2015

• Used behavioral pharmacology methods to demonstrate impact of hippocampal HDAC inhibition on learning and memory in mice

Undergraduate Researcher

2014 - 2014

Research Intern

2012 - 2012