James C. Blair

Dr. Blair has been a Partner of Domain since its founding in 1985. Present board memberships include Applied Proteomics, Astute Medical, aTyr Pharma, Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Clovis Oncology, CoDa Therapeutics, IntegenX, Meritage Pharma, NeuroPace, and Zogenix. Dr. Blair has over 40 years experience with venture and emerging growth companies. In the course of his experience, he has been involved in the creation and successful development at the Board level of over 40 life sciences ventures, including Amgen, Aurora Biosciences, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Applied Biosystems, Dura Pharmaceuticals, GeneOhm Sciences, Molecular Dynamics, NuVasive, Pharmion and Volcano. A former managing director of Rothschild Inc., Dr. Blair was directly involved at a senior level with Rothschild/New Court venture capital activities from 1978 to 1985. From 1969 to 1978, he was associated with F.S. Smithers and Co. and White, Weld and Co., two investment banking firms actively involved with new ventures and emerging growth companies. From 1961 to 1969, Dr. Blair was an engineering manager with RCA Corporation, during which time he received a David Sarnoff Fellowship. Dr. Blair currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, and he is on the Advisory Boards of the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation, and the Caltech Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and the Caltech Innovation Initiative.