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Leon Chen

Partner at The Column Group

Palo Alto, California

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Skills

Venture Capital
Capital
Ventures
Entrepreneur
Investments
Entrepreneurship
Healthcare
Lifesciences
Start-up Ventures
Start-ups
Commercialization
Biotechnology
Biopharmaceuticals
Corporate Development
Pharmaceutical Industry
Private Equity
Business Development
Protein Chemistry
Mergers & Acquisitions
Clinical Development

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2019

2013 - 2019

  • Venture Partner

    2013 - 2019

2007 - 2013

  • Partner

    2007 - 2013

    As a Partner at Skyline Ventures, I sourced, did diligence and negotiated new investments with a focus in therapeutics, life science tools and diagnostics. While at Skyline I was a board member of Sutro Biopharma, Crescendo Biosciences and Genocea Biosciences and a Board observer at Celula and DiscoverX.

2007 - 2007

  • Entrepreneur in Residence

    2007 - 2007

    As an EIR at Venrock, I worked on forming a new company in the field of epigenetics. Together with the team there we evaluated relevant targets in the space that could be a focus for novel drugs in oncology.

KAI Pharmaceuticals

2002 - 2007

  • Founder

    2002 - 2007

    KAI Pharmaceuticals focused on peptide based therapeutics targeting Protein Kinase C for a variety of indications. The company developed clinical programs in cardiovascular disease, pain and renal indications Founded out of the labs of Dr. Daria Mochly Rosen at Stanford, the company was acquired by Amgen in 2012 for $315M. As a founder of KAI Pharmaceuticals I served as the first employee and helped build the organization from the ground up. While at KAI I held a number of responsibilities including leading a team of pharmacologist in the research organization, project management of pre-clinical and early clinical programs, managing corporate IP, and participating in business development and corporate financing efforts.

Stanford

1998 - 2001

  • PhD Student

    1998 - 2001