KQ

Kou Qin

Investment Director @ Eisai Innovation | Biotech Venture Capitalist

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Managing Director of Investment

    2023

    • Corporate VC of Eisai, a leading pharma that develops drugs for Alzheimer's disease & cancer • Investing with a strategic focus on aging-related diseases: neurodegeneration, cancer and others

  • Principal of Investment

    2021 - 2022

    • Investing in breakthrough science, platforms and proven teams to address unmet medical needs • Enabling win-win partnerships among portfolio companies, Eisai and collaborating pharma/VC firms

  • Board Observer

    2024

    ProTgen aims to rejuvenate the thymus and the immune system to prevent/treat cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.

  • Investor

    2024

    eGenesis is revolutionizing human organ xenotransplantation by providing CRISPR-edited, humanized pig organs.

  • Investor

    2023

    Iambic Therapeutics is the first clinical-stage company to invent physics-informed generative AI tools, drastically accelerating small-molecule drug R&D for brain tumor.

  • Board Observer

    2023

    Hyku Biosciences is pioneering the next generation of high precision covalent medicine by focusing non-cysteine amino acids (H,Y,K...) of "undruggable" targets.

  • Investor

    2023

    Tune Therapeutics is the first clinical-stage company developing CRISPR-based epigenetic editing therapeutics for common diseases. https://www.genengnews.com/news/epigenetic-editing-in-non-human-primates-presented-by-tune-at-asgct/

  • Board Observer

    2022

    RiboX Therapeutics is the first clinical-stage circular RNA (circRNA) company, founded on the pioneering work of its scientific founder, Ling-Ling Chen, in the biogenesis and functions of circRNA. With its unique protein-coding and non-coding capabilities, circRNA has the potential to overcome the current limitations of mRNA therapeutics. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0UNkhq4AAAAJ

  • Board Observer

    2022

    Casma Therapeutics is advancing the next generation therapeutics for the Parkinson's disease based on autophagy.

  • Board Observer

    2022

    Delivering RNA and protein drugs across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) to treat neurological diseases. https://ophidion.com/

  • Investor

    2020

    Pyrotech is founded on Shao Feng's seminal work, which illuminated the mechanism of 'Pyroptosis'. This novel form of cell death controls infection by activating strong immune responses. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wLg0PUQAAAAJ