Dave Messina
General Partner at Pioneer Fund - Future of Health health.pioneerfund.vc
- Role
- Member of Selection Committee at Iselect Fund
- Location
- San Diego, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Dave Messina
Founder and General Partner of Pioneer\'s Future of Health Fund, a fund of 100+ Y Combinator healthtech alumni investing in top Y Combinator health startups.I\'ve spent 25+ years in healthcare and have been leading healthcare investments at Pioneer Fund since 2019.To date, I\'ve led 100+ deals, including- Gilgamesh ($1B exit to Abbvie)- Assort Health ($500M+ valuation)- Stepful (20x+ MOIC)- Freshpaint (8-figure ARR)- PostEra ($1B in deals with Pfizer and Amgen). Before venture, I founded the RNA and machine learning company Cofactor Genomics that achieved national Medicare reimbursement for its technology that improves outcomes for cancer patients. Earlier, I worked on the Human Genome Project, authored 20+ research papers, and earned my computational biology PhD in Stockholm, Sweden.
Experience
Member of Selection Committee
Sep 2016 — Present
Education
University of Illinois Chicago
Bachelor of Science (BS), Biology
1994 — 1996
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Master of Science (MS), Genetics
1998 — 2004
Stockholm University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Biology
2007 — 2012
Skills
- Bioinformatics
- Genomics
- Sequence Analysis
- Microarray Analysis
- Metagenomics
- Human Genetics
- Computational Biology
- Bioperl
- Biology
- Genetics
- Sequencing
- Molecular Biology
- Perl
- Population Genetics
- Microarray
- Informatics
- Comparative Genomics
- R
- Dna Sequencing
- Lifesciences
- Science
- Proteomics
- Molecular Evolution
- Transcriptomics
- Functional Genomics
- Dna
- Experimental Design
- Molecular Genetics
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Rnaseq
- Life Sciences
- Community Outreach
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