Vanqua Bio
Bernard joined Omega Funds in 2020. He has extensive experience in the life sciences and biotech industry, marked by a number of successful transactions involving financings and M&A. Bernard serves currently on the boards of Vanqua Bio, Lexeo Therapeutics, and Endeavor Biomedicines. Bernard was also involved in the firm’s investments in Atea Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: AVIR) and Icosavax (NASDAQ: ICVX).
Bernard previously served as SVP and Managing Director at Sanofi Ventures, having first joined Sanofi in 2010 as Vice President, Deputy Global Head, Business Development. Over his 7-year tenure, Sanofi Ventures invested in 28 new companies and generated 14 exits (12 NASDAQ IPOs, 1 trade sale and 1 option deal).
Prior to Sanofi, Bernard held CEO, CFO and other leadership roles at Fovea Pharmaceuticals (which was sold to Sanofi in 2009 in a $540 million cash transaction), Neurotech Pharmaceuticals, Transgene (which successfully raised $100 million in a 1998 IPO on the NASDAQ/EuroNext) and Institut Mérieux (now Sanofi Pasteur).
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Vanqua Bio
Vanqua Bio is helping usher in a new era of hope for the millions of people living with neurodegenerative diseases. Our unique drug-development approach is designed to overcome longstanding challenges in the neuroscience field by capitalizing on the power of human genetics to identify genes that cause or increase the risk of neurodegenerative disease. We leverage novel, proprietary research tools and in vitro modeling of disease, based on patient-derived neuronal cells, to develop transformative therapies that slow or stop the progression of Parkinson’s disease (PD), Alzheimer’s disease (AD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Gaucher disease (GD).