| Niall O’Donnell joined RiverVest® in May 2006 as a Kauffman Fellow. He focuses on biopharmaceutical, diagnostic and medical device opportunities.
Prior to joining RiverVest, Niall spent five years as an immunologist at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development in San Diego. He was part of a successful cross-disciplinary team of chemists and biologists that drove small molecule anti-inflammatory drugs into clinical trials. Niall co-authored the first paper validating the newly discovered histamine H4 receptor as a key regulator of immune pathologies.
Niall is a board observer at Excaliard Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Kaperio, Inc., and contributes to the formation, development and business strategies of RiverVest portfolio companies.
Niall earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Dundee, Scotland, and M.A. in Biochemistry from Pembroke College, Oxford. He also received an M.B.A. from the Rady School of Management of the University of California, San Diego. His professional affiliations include the American Thoracic Society, American Association of Immunologists and the Society of Glycobiology. Niall is a guest lecturer to the Kauffman Global Scholars entrepreneurship program at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
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| “At RiverVest, we help entrepreneurs bring their life-transforming products to the patients. An enormous motivating factor to me is to be involved in some small way at the genesis of a drug or device company that can bring huge clinical benefit to patients.” |
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