Amir Nashat

Dr. Nashat has served as a member of the board of directors since January 2015. He is a managing partner at Polaris Partners, a venture capital firm, where he has worked since April 2002. Dr. Nashat was also the founding Chief Executive Officer of Living Proof, Inc. and Sun Catalytix Corporation. He currently represents Polaris on the boards of Scholar Rock, Agbiome, Inc., aTyr Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Fate Therapeutics, Inc., Jnana Therapeutics, where he also serves as the Chief Executive Officer, CAMP4, Morphic Therapeutic, Inc., Olivo Labs, Promedior, Inc., Selecta Biosciences Inc., Syros Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Taris Biomedical, LLC. Dr. Nashat also serves on the Partners Innovation Fund, the Investment Advisory Committee for The Engine at MIT, and helped launch the MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund as its active president. He previously served on the board of directors of the New England Venture Capital Association. He received an M.S. and B.S. in materials science and mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and a Sc.D. as a Hertz Fellow in chemical engineering at MIT with a minor in biology.