Ribometrix
Hakan Goker, Ph.D., is a senior investment director at M Ventures, corporate venture arm of the biopharmaceutical division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. Hakan has been investing for the past 12 years and joined M Ventures in 2013. Previously Hakan was a partner at Aescap Venture and prior to that was part of Atlas Venture life sciences team.
Since 2006, Hakan has been instrumental in the creation, financing, and corporate strategy of multiple biotechnology companies globally including Artios, Asceneuron, Storm, Bicycle, and F-star. Hakan received his PhD in cancer biology from the Institute of Cancer Research/ University of London and continued his scientific career with post-doctoral work at the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Centre/Royal Marsden Hospital. He gained his BSc Honours, from University College London. Hakan currently is a board member at Artios Pharma, Asceneuron, Forendo, Macrophage Pharma, Ribometrix Inc., Storm Therapeutics, Synaffix, Tocopherx, and is the chairperson of iOnctura.
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Ribometrix
Ribometrix, headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, is a biotechnology company leveraging world-leading expertise in three-dimensional structural analysis of RNA as the foundation of its proprietary drug discovery platform. This platform enables the identification of novel small molecules that modulate the function of RNA and proteins associated with human disease. Ribometrix’ value creation strategy is built around developing an internal pipeline of drug candidates and partnerships with the leading biopharmaceutical companies. Ribometrix is backed by a syndicate of blue-chip venture investors.