Imran Babar

Imran has over 10 years of experience in the healthcare industry, including public and private investing experience and rare disease nonprofit management. He comes to Cydan from the private equity team at OrbiMed Advisors, which is a leading healthcare investment firm. While at OrbiMed Imran was involved with a range of companies including Audentes Therapeutics (public), True North Therapeutics (acquired), Neurogastrx, NeRRe Therapeutics, Arvinas, Synlogic Therapeutics (public), and others. Prior to joining OrbiMed, Imran was a Biotechnology Associate at Cowen & Company where he covered over 20 therapeutics companies.

Imran is also co-founder and chief scientific officer for Rare Genomics Institute (RG), a nonprofit dedicated to helping rare disease patients since 2011. Under his leadership, RG has implemented numerous initiatives to accelerate research for rare diseases and shorten patients’ diagnostic odyssey.

Imran completed his PhD in Molecular Biology at Yale University, where he researched microRNAs as both causes and treatments for cancers.