Nafise Masoumi
Senior Associate at Novo Holdings
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Senior Associate
2023 - Current
Associate
2020 - 2022
Active in life science investment, early-stage, Series A-C & Public Biotech, MedTech, and Digital Health companies.
Director, Portfolio Strategy and Alliance Management (Neuroscience)
2020 - 2020
Consultant
2018 - 2020
BCG Securities focuses on wealth management with high net worth individuals.
Postdoctoral Associate
2015 - 2018
Point of contact for sponsored research programs and industrial partnership within Langer lab. • Biotechnology: Drug delivery, hydrogel encapsulation & liposome delivery system Developed fabrication techniques, devices & biomaterial synthesis for scaffolds development for regeneration • Project leader/Corporate point of contact: Initiated and managed 3 sponsored research programs ($700K, funding) with biopharmaceutical and industrial partners & collaborators
Research Fellow/Project Manager
2014 - 2018
• Project Manager/Instructor: Regenerative Medicine & Tissue Engineering from bench to bedside Responsible for study development and providing supervision, technical expertise and leadership to support development of novel implantable biomaterials and medical devices • Product Development: Drug release & therapeutic platforms,
Briarpatch Pediatrics is a pediatric center that provides health care services to children.
VentureLabs Fellow
2017 - 2017
Flagship VentureLabs is the innovation foundry of Flagship Pioneering. This program invites outstanding scientists, engineers and physicians to collaborate under mentor ship of inventors and professionals entrepreneurs within the company, to generate novel ideas with the goal of creating pioneering life science and technology ventures. Supported the investment team in discovery & due diligence for early stage life-science companies Idea creation, platform technologies and protocol development
Flagship Pioneering is a venture capital firm that invests in life sciences and healthcare companies.
Business Development Intern
2016 - 2016
Business development team- technology transfer, developing commercializing opportunities and project management for industrial partnership.
Affiliate Scientist
2015 - 2016
Project leader- developed a cross platform project to design a tissue engineered heart valve model- synthesis of novel elastomeric polymer, design of an organ level bioreactor and complex fabrication techniques.
Sponsored research staff
2011 - 2013
Scaffolds Fabrication, Layer by Layer Assembly, Biochemical Assays, Polymer Synthesis.
Visiting Scholar/ Data Scientist
2008 - 2009
Energy Metabolism in the Brain. Using clinical data including blood pressure and oxygen level (ABP, CtOx, and O2Hb levels) for regression analysis.
Staff Engineer
2007 - 2008
As a data scientist, i developed a new model using Matab software to study Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Dynamic and to measure Intra-cranial Pressure (ICP), noninvasively in Patients with Hydrocephalus and brain trauma.