Metagenomi

Investment area

Venture Investments

Region

North America

Date of investment

January 2022

Metagenomi are discovering breakthrough gene editing systems from nature to develop next generation therapies for patients.

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Raymond Camahort

Partner

Departments: Venture Investments, Novo Ventures US Inc.

Raymond Camahort, Ph.D., is Partner at Novo Holdings Venture Investments. He has over 15 years of combined investment, business, and research experience, with expertise in biochemistry, genetics, and gene therapy/editing.

Prior to joining Novo Ventures, Ray worked in business development at the Harvard University Office of Technology Development where his role was to help facilitate commercialization of technologies developed in the chemistry and stem cell/regenerative biology departments.

Ray has served on the Board of Directors of numerous companies, including Ray Therapeutics, Arcellx, Inspirna, iECURE, Riva Therapeutics, and OnCusp Therapeutics. He completed a National Institute of Health post-doctoral training fellowship at Harvard University and was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Missouri. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in biochemistry and molecular biology and a B.S. in biological sciences from the University of California Santa Barbara.