Neena Kadaba (Past Speaker)

Dr. Neena Kadaba is Director, Science at Quark Venture, and has established Quark’s California office. Quark Venture is a recently established $500M fund investing globally in a diversified portfolio of innovative companies addressing unmet medical needs through innovations in drug development, medical devices, health IT and emerging convergent technologies. Previously, Dr. Kadaba was the Director of Strategic Partnerships at QB3, the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, an institute at the University of California made up of UCSF, UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz. Prior to QB3, Dr. Kadaba was a Kauffman Fellow while she was an Associate in Venture Investment at Itochu Technology, Inc, the California office of Itochu, the Japanese trading company. Dr. Kadaba received her PhD in Chemistry at the CalTech and her undergraduate and masters’ degrees from MIT. Dr. Kadaba serves on MIT’s Educational Council and is a member of the Board of the American Friends of the London School of Tropical Hygiene and Medicine.