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Rosana Kapeller

President and CEO of ROME Therapeutics

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Overview 

Rosana Kapeller is the President and CEO at ROME Therapeutics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. With a strong background in biotech and pharmaceuticals, she has held key leadership roles at Nimbus Therapeutics as CSO and Aileron Therapeutics as Vice President of Research. Kapeller's career highlights include serving as a Director and Scientist at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, as well as being an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at GV.

Work Experience 

  • President and CEO

    2020 - Current

ROME Therapeutics is developing novel therapies for cancer and autoimmune diseases by harnessing the power of the repeatome.

Raised $199,000,000.00 from Mass General Brigham Ventures, Casdin Capital, Section 32, Curie.Bio, Sanofi Ventures, Google Ventures, Mirae Asset Capital, Luma Group, Axon Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.

  • EIR

    2018

Google Ventures is an investment arm of Alphabet that provides seed, venture, and growth-stage funding to technology companies.

  • Biotech executive

    2018 - 2018

  • CSO

    2010 - 2018

Nimbus Therapeutics uses computational technology to create selective small molecule therapeutics.

Raised $637,000,000.00 from Biotechnology Value Fund, RA Capital Management, Gates Frontier Fund, SR One, Pfizer Venture Investments, Bain Capital Life Sciences, Atlas Venture, Google Ventures, SV Health Investors and Lightstone Ventures.

  • Consultant

    2009 - 2010

  • Vice President of Research

    2005 - 2009

Aileron Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that develops a class of drugs called Stapled Peptides.

Raised $256,212,894.00 from Nantahala Capital Management and Bios Partners.

  • Director

    2002 - 2005

  • Scientist/ Sr. Scientist

    1996 - 2002

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