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Racquel Bracken

General Partner at Venrock

Palo Alto, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • General Partner

    2016 - Current

    Investing broadly in private healthcare companies with an interest in biotech

  • Board Member

    2024

  • Board Member

    2021

    Discovering and developing novel antibody drug conjugate antibody therapies in oncology

  • Board Member, Treasurer

    2019

    Essential Access Health (formerly California Family Health Council) is a non-profit organization that champions and promotes quality sexual and reproductive health care for all. Essential Access Health achieves its mission through an umbrella of services including advanced clinical research, provider training, patient education and consumer awareness, public policy and clinic support initiatives. As the administrator of the nation's largest Title X federal family planning program, we partner with a diverse provider network that collectively serves nearly one million women, men and teens annually at more than 340 health centers in 37 of California's 58 counties.

  • Acting Chief Executive Officer

    2022 - 2024

    Confluence Therapeutics is pioneering a novel platform of RNA binding protein targeted oligonucleotide therapeutics for therapeutic areas with significant unmet need.

  • Board Member

    2017 - 2023

  • CEO and co-founder

    2018 - 2020

    Microbial cell therapy for diseases with high unmet medical need

  • Marketing Director

    2015 - 2016

    Responsible for leading the marketing team for rucaparib, a PARP inhibitor for the treatment of advanced ovarian cancer. Rucaparib received breakthrough therapy designation from the FDA in 2015 and NDA filing is expected mid-2016.

  • Head of Business Development

    2009 - 2016

    Responsible for the in-licensing of the current Clovis pipeline, including: global rights to rociletinib (CO-1686) from Avila Therapeutics (now Celgene), rucaparib (CO-338) from Pfizer, and US and Japanese right to lucitanib from EOS.

  • Associate

    2006 - 2009

  • Analyst

    2005 - 2006

Education

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