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Dima Kuzmin

Managing Partner at 4BIO Capital | Kauffman Fellow

London, England

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Skills

Biotechnology
Start-ups
Bioinformatics
R&D
Venture Capital
Strategy
Neuroscience
Technology Transfer
Science
Life Sciences
International Project Management
Entrepreneurship
Lifesciences
Drug Discovery
Foresight
Market Research
Government Relations
Market Access
Due Diligence
Cell Biology

Education

Work Experience

  • Managing Partner

    2014

    71 investments in advanced therapies (and counting) across private and public markets. Committed to curing chronic diseases through advanced therapies.

  • Assistant Professor Adjunct of Medicine

    2021

    Pre-clinical and clinical trial design, ethics of access and reimbursement for one-shot curative therapies

  • Kauffman Fellow - Graduated

    2023

  • Kauffman Fellow - Class 26

    2021 - 2023

    Kauffman Fellowship Program (Class 26): The Kauffman Fellowship is a two-year executive education program that identifies and develops global leaders in VC while providing a structured curriculum, peer learning, executive coaching, and networking — all with a focus on giving back and one's responsibility as a leader in venture capital. With 700+ Fellows across 50+ countries, Kauffman Fellows is the largest network of VCs and innovation leaders in the world. Each year, the organization adds a new cohort of 60 accomplished Fellows who attend this two-year program part-time, while they are investing full time.

  • Chairman of the Board

    2022

    Hornet Therapeutics is a biotech company focused on developing treatments to address EBV-driven pathologies. Read our launch paper in Science here: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk4898

  • Chairman of the Board

    2024

  • Board Member

    2020 - 2024

    Araris Biotech AG is pioneering a novel linker technology for antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs.) This linker platform enables the attachment of any payload to ‘off the shelf’ antibodies without the need of prior antibody engineering.

  • Chairman of the Board

    2023

  • Board Member

    2021

    Ray Therapeutics is developing novel optogenetics gene therapies for patients with blinding diseases. The company is developing its lead candidate Ray-001 in retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative retinal disease with significant unmet medical need. The company’s mission is to use optogenetics to restore vision, agnostic of genetic mutation for patients with inherited retinal diseases.

  • Board Member

    2021

    Headquartered in Greater Philadelphia, Code Bio is a next-generation gene therapy company pioneering the development of targeted non-viral gene therapies to treat serious and life-threatening genetic diseases.

  • Board Member

    2020 - 2022

    Based in New York City, Redpin Therapeutics is a privately-held, preclinical stage gene therapy company developing a proprietary chemogenetics platform for targeted cell therapies to address currently intractable diseases of the central nervous system. Acquired by Kriya in November 2022.

2020 - 2022

  • Board Observer

    2020 - 2022

    SparingVision is a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of innovative therapies for the treatment of blinding inherited retinal diseases. SparingVision is developing SPVN06, a gene-independent treatment for retinitis pigmentosa, the most common inherited retinal degeneration.