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Marcos Milla

Venture Partner at Samsara BioCapital

Carlsbad, California

Overview 

Marcos Milla is a Venture Partner at Samsara BioCapital, with a background in protein chemistry and extensive experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry. Notable highlights include serving as Chief Scientific Officer at Synthorx Inc and holding leadership roles at Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp., Janssen, and Roche Pharmaceuticals. Currently, Marcos Milla is investing in companies like Enlaza Therapeutics and Tentarix Biotherapeutics, focusing on stages such as Series A and B in the pharmaceuticals and biotech sectors.

Work Experience 

  • Member

    2023 - Current

    Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia is a top institution in Latin America for education and research in biomedical sciences. We are boosting institutional development through its Board of Patrons (Patronato)

  • Venture Partner

    2021

Samsara Biocapital provides investment advisory services to help entrepreneurs turn their own ideas and visions into successful companies.

  • President

    2020

    The Milla Goni Family Foundation creatively curates and provides access to capital, research, and connections to Peruvian change-makers from marginalized communities to launch mutualist, restorative solutions in healthcare, food + water justice, equitable labor + income, and decolonized education: https://themillagonifoundation.org/

  • Chief Scientific Officer

    2018 - 2021

  • Senior Vice President of Research

    2017 - 2018

Synthorx is a biotechnology company using synthetic biology to synthesize solutions.

Raised $76,125,000.00 from Correlation Ventures, RA Capital Management, OUP (Osage University Partners), Avalon Ventures, Medicxi and OrbiMed.

  • Vice President, Therapeutics

    2016 - 2017

Adaptive Biotechnologies translates scale and precision of the adaptive immune system into products to diagnose and treat disease.

Raised $531,850,000.00 from OrbiMed.

  • Global Head, Emerging Science & Innovation, Discovery Sciences

    2014 - 2016

  • Scientific Director and Fellow, Immunology Discovery

    2009 - 2014

    Team Leader - Exploratory Platforms

  • Director

    2005 - 2009

Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., a molecular diagnostics company, develops and commercializes diagnostic and blood screening tests based on

  • Professor

    1998 - 2005

    Research on the structure and function of the TNF-alpha converting enzyme (TACE)

  • Research Investigator

    1995 - 1998

  • Post Doctoral Fellow

    1990 - 1993

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