Sara Núñez-garcia

Biography

Sara Núñez-Garcia joined the Life Sciences team as an Associate in 2013; Sara focuses on investments in the biopharmaceutical sector. Prior to Sofinnova Partners, Sara worked in the Licensing and M&A team at Onyx Pharmaceuticals in California, where she proposed option-based and structured deals for various potential acquisitions in the oncology space. Previously, Sara spent six years in the pharmaceutical industry with Solvay and Abbott Laboratories in The Netherlands as a Medicinal Chemist. During her time in drug discovery, Sara worked on preclinical programmes for central nervous system indications, contributing to the submission of several IND packages of novel chemical entities. In addition, Sara led transfer-of-knowledge projects with several universities in Amsterdam. Sara was a postdoctoral fellow in the Biochemistry and Biophysics departments at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York where she developed inhibitors for oncology targets. She has a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Manchester; her doctoral research used a combination of experimental and computational techniques to design and synthesize transition state inhibitors. Sara has published eighteen peer-reviewed articles and patents. Sara also holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Research Interest

Bioinformatics & Systems Biology, biochemistry, immunology, molecular biology