Bio Details

Robert Nelsen has served as a member of our Board since October 2018. Mr. Nelsen has served as co-founder and Managing Director of ARCH Venture Partners, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology companies, since 1994, and has played a significant role in the early sourcing, financing and development of more than 30 biopharmaceutical companies. Mr. Nelsen currently serves on the board of directors of several public biotechnology and biopharmaceutical companies including Beam Therapeutics, Denali Therapeutics Inc., Hua Medicine, Karuna Therapeutics, Unity Biotechnology, Inc., Vir Biotechnology and several private companies, including Apex Neuro, Brii Biosciences, Inc., Encoded Genomics, Gideon Health, GRAIL, Inc., Insitro, Lyell Immunopharma, Inc., Maze Therapeutics, Inc., Nutcracker Therapeutics, Inc., Prime Medicine, and SciNeuro Pharmaceuticals. Mr. Nelsen previously served on the board of directors of several public biotechnology and biopharmaceutical companies including Adolor Corporation, Agios Pharmaceuticals, Bellerophon Therapeutics, Fate Therapeutics, Illumina, Inc., Juno, KYTHERA Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., NeurogesX, Inc., Sage Therapeutics, Sienna Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., and Syros Pharmaceuticals. He also previously served as Trustee of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and as a director of the National Venture Capital Association. Mr. Nelsen obtained an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a B.S. with majors in economics and biology from the University of Puget Sound.