47. Taking Agency of Your Care (& Your Company) w/ Lee Cooper - Senior Director of Venture Investments @ Leaps by Bayer
Guest: Lee Cooper - Senior Director of Venture Investments @ Leaps by Bayer
Hosts: Chas Pulido (@AlixVentures) & Chris Ghadban
Lee Cooper is Senior Director of Venture Investments @ Leaps by Bayer, where he aims to contribute to new biotechnologies that enable patients and communities to live healthier lives. Lee is on the faculty of Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering and teaches “The Ecosystem for Bio-Innovation.” Prior to joining Leaps, Lee was Entrepreneur-in-Residence with RA Capital and founder of Enlight Bio, a biotech focused on genetic disease. Previously, Lee worked in corporate development for Moderna Therapeutics, leading and supporting transactions, financings, and partnerships to develop novel therapeutics and vaccines.
Lee serves on the Boards of multiple therapeutic platform-focused biotech companies. He is the founder of the Institute for Genetic Disease Prevention and has written on innovation and ethics for Wired, Slate, Neo.Life, and STAT News.
Lee earned his J.D. and M.B.A. from Columbia University, and graduated from Dartmouth College with an A.B. in Religion and Public Policy.
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Music: Danger Storm by Kevin MacLeod (link & license)
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