PF

Peter Fong

Partner, President, RTW Investments

New York, New York

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $10,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000,000.00

Work Experience

  • Partner, President

    2023

  • Partner, Chief Development Officer

    2022 - 2023

  • Senior Managing Director, Head of Asset Development and Financing

    2021 - 2022

  • Senior Managing Director, Head of Company Creation

    2019 - 2021

  • Board Executive Director

    2019

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2022 - 2022

  • Founding Chief Executive Officer

    2019 - 2021

2018 - 2019

  • Senior Principal

    2018 - 2019

    Peter Fong joined Flagship Pioneering as Senior Principal on Flagship's innovation team in 2018 where he focused on company creation. His responsibilities included leading a team of Flagship entrepreneurial scientists to create first-in-category biotech companies.

  • iCEO, Harbinger Health

    2018 - 2019

  • iCEO, FL66

    2018 - 2019

  • iCEO, FL54

    2018 - 2019

  • iCEO, FL60

    2018 - 2019

2014 - 2018

  • Associate Director, Oncology Business Development, Genentech Partnering

    2016 - 2018

    Associate Director of Oncology Business Development in the Genentech Partnering Group in South San Francisco. Responsible for sourcing, screening, evaluating, and acquiring new therapeutics to build the company's oncology pipeline.

  • Senior Manager, Oncology Business Development, Genentech Partnering

    2014 - 2016

  • New Ventures and Business Development

    2009 - 2014

    Launched and lead Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s (MSKCC’s) New Ventures and Business Development unit.

  • Co-Founder and VP of R&D

    2007 - 2009

    Co-invented novel nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery, and used technology to build oncology-based biotech company spun out of Yale University. Carigent's IP was licensed by Bind Therapeutics.

1998 - 2007

  • James Hudson Brown — Alexander Brown Coxe Postdoctoral Fellow

    2003 - 2007

    Nanoparticle drug delivery research for therapeutic applications and tissue engineering. Work resulted in more than 10 issued or pending patents, some of which have been licensed to 6 biotech or pharmaceutical companies, including Bind Therapeutics, Amgen, and Pfizer.

  • Graduate Student Research Assistant

    1998 - 2003

    Developed novel tissue-like biomaterials to study the effects of radiation in tissue for oncology radiotherapy applications. The central approach involved evaluating free-radical induced polymerization and its effect on NMR relaxation.

1995 - 1998

  • Chemist

    1995 - 1998

    Worked on the discovery and development of novel block co-polymers for high-heat applications.