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Theonie Anastassiadis

Senior Principal at Flagship Pioneering

Boston, Massachusetts

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $15,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $7,000,000.00

Work Experience

  • Founding President

    2023

  • Senior Principal

    2023

  • Principal

    2021 - 2023

  • Senior Associate

    2019 - 2021

  • Associate

    2018 - 2019

    I work as part of a team of entrepreneurial scientists to conceive, create, resource and develop the next generation of Flagship’s first-in-category ventures. As part of the founding team, I develop the science, intellectual property and business strategy for these breakthrough ventures.

2018

  • Cofounder and Chief Innovation Officer

    2018

  • Scientific Strategy and Operations

    2018 - 2018

    Ohana is a Flagship company with near-term opportunities to transform the field of reproductive medicine by pioneering research in sperm biology. Ohana is developing technologies to (1) prevent inherited disease without gene editing, (2) deliver a highly effective, safe, reversible, non-hormonal contraceptive, and (3) treat male infertility, traditionally ignored but responsible for half of infertility issues.

  • PhD student in Cell and Molecular Biology (Cancer Biology)

    2011 - 2017

2017 - 2017

  • Fellow

    2017 - 2017

  • Research Specialist

    2009 - 2011

    Research Project 1: Exploring features of target selectivity using large-scale kinase inhibitor profiling Research Project 2: Understanding and optimizing the mechanism of inhibition of novel insulin receptor kinase inhibitor via crystallography Research Project 3: Determining the role of the non-receptor tyrosine kinase Ack1 in EGFR signaling and identifying Ack1 substrates and inhibitors

2009 - 2010

  • Discovery Science volunteer

    2009 - 2010

    Outreach volunteer introducing 3rd and 4th graders to various fields of science through hands-on learning.

2008 - 2009

  • Research Thesis Student

    2008 - 2009

    Bachelor Thesis Mentor: Dr. Karl Johnson, PhD Bachelor Thesis Title: Using streptavidin-biotin interactions to engineer viral assembly at the nanoscale

2008 - 2008

  • Research Assistant

    2008 - 2008

    Research Mentor: Dr. Andrew F. Hill, PhD Research Project: Generating a rabbit kidney epithelial cell line stably expressing the TimD4 gene to study the role of TimD4 in prion infection and intercellular propagation.