Sahil Chopra

Principal

2024 - Current

Vice President of Investments

2023

Senior Associate

2021

Investment Associate

2019

Vertex Ventures HC (www.vertexventureshc.com) is part of a global venture fund network under Vertex Venture Holdings, a fund anchored by Temasek Holdings, with offices in Silicon Valley, Boston, and Singapore. Vertex Ventures HC invests globally in various sectors of the healthcare industry, including biotech, biopharmaceuticals, medical devices and digital health with ~$600M under management.

Board Observer

2022

Board Observer

2020 - 2021

Venture fellow

2018 - 2019

Graduate Student Researcher

2012 - 2019

Thesis focused on the stress sensors in the innate-immune cells of the body. Principal investigators- Dr. Laurie Glimcher (Former Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine and Current President at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University) and Dr. Juan Cubillos Ruiz, Cornell University - Published a first author paper in Science - Published as a co-author in Nature and Cell - Over 400 citations

Pro Bono Consultant

2018 - 2018

-Provided with a Landscape analysis -Developed a financial model to predict growth of the organization

Analyst

2015 - 2017

Provided scientific and market due diligence, business development solutions to clients that include early stage life science investors, healthcare product based companies, healthcare startups

General Secretary

2010 - 2012

-organize various technical workshops and seminars given by experts

Research Associate

2011 - 2012

-Cloning, expression, purification, characterization and computational structural analysis of heme oxygenase enzyme for drug development Principal Investigator- Dr. Suman Kundu

Intern

2010 - 2010

Identification of auto-antibodies for the differentiation of colonic Crohn’s disease from intestinal tuberculosis Principal Investigator- Dr. A. Srinivasan