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Dave Messina

Founder/COO @ Cofactor Genomics, GP Bio+Health Fund and SVP @ Pioneer Fund, Y Combinator, Human Genome Project, TechBio Founder using RNA+Machine Learning

San Diego, California

Education

Work Experience

  • Founder and Chief Operating Officer

    2016

    I oversee Operations and Production at Cofactor, where we develop and produce RNA-based Molecular Diagnostics and Discovery products.

  • Senior Venture Partner and co-lead Bio+Health Fund

    2022

  • Senior Venture Partner

    2019

  • Venture Partner

    2017 - 2019

  • Advisor

    2020

  • Member of Selection Committee

    2016

  • Advisor

    2017

  • Advisor

    2018

  • Member of the Board of Trustees

    2013 - 2019

    Lending my expertise to one of the premier college preparatory boarding schools in the United States. Ranked the #1 Private School in Missouri.

2017 - 2017

  • Startup School Advisor

    2017 - 2017

    I advised 18 startup companies in Y Combinator's first Startup School program.

  • Chief Operating Officer

    2015 - 2016

  • Director of Analysis

    2012 - 2015

    Leads Cofactor’s computational research & development program, executing our software and infrastructure strategy Co-director of Operations, planning and coordinating production and personnel Oversees bioinformatics analyses for all clients, from small academic labs to large pharma companies

2005 - 2015

  • Core Developer

    2010 - 2015

    BioPerl is a set of software libraries which keeps biologists from having to spend so much time writing new code in order to answer their research questions. BioPerl still has a pretty steep learning curve for most people, so I'm trying to help make it easier to use.

  • Developer

    2005 - 2010

    BioPerl is a set of software libraries which keeps biologists from having to spend so much time writing new code in order to answer their research questions. BioPerl still has a pretty steep learning curve for most people, so I'm trying to help make it easier to use.