Markus Hosang

Markus is a General Partner and Managing Director at BioMedPartners in Basel, a venture capital firm that manages the BioMedInvest family of funds. He obtained his PhD in Biochemistry from the ETH in Zurich and pursued his postgraduate training at Stanford University Medical School in neurobiology and subsequently at the University of Washington Medical School in Seattle.

He is currently on the board of directors of AlevaNeurotherapeutics, Anergis, Hookipa Biotech and Imevax, and was on the board of directors of SuppreMol, Okairos, GenKyoTex, Avontec and Neuraxo Pharmaceuticals. Prior to joining BioMedPartners, Markus was a venture partner at MPM Capital, where he managed their European office in Munich, was co-responsible for their European deal flow and served on the boards of several of their European portfolio companies including Omrix Pharmaceuticals, Kourion, IDEA and Atugen.

Before that Markus was at Roche in Basel for nearly 20 years, where he held several senior management positions of increasing importance in the Pharma R&D organisation. Among these were director and vice president of the global Pharma R&D strategy unit and a member of the board of Pharma R&D Directors for many years. In this virtue he was directly involved in several major strategic transactions of Roche.

Markus served on the board of directors and the board of trustees of the Swiss Foundation for Stipends in Medicine and Biology (SSMBS) as its treasurer during 1994-2002, and is currently the vice chairman of the board of directors of Unitectra AG, the combined technology transfer office of the universities of Zurich, Bern and Basel. Markus has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and holds several patents.