Andrew Schwab

Biography

Andrew J. Schwab is a Founder and Managing Partner of 5AM Ventures. Prior to founding 5AM in 2002, Mr. Schwab was a Principal at Bay City Capital. After joining Bay City Capital in 1999, he led the firm’s investment and merchant banking activities for such companies as Cubist, PTC Therapeutics, Symyx and Syrrx. Previously Mr. Schwab was Vice President of Business Development at Digital Gene Technologies and a Vice President in the life science investment banking group of Montgomery Securities. At 5AM, he has led the firm’s investments in and served on the Boards of Directors of Bellerophon (Public), Biodesy, Cleave, DVS (acquired by Fluidigm), Flexion (Public), Ikaria (acquired by Madison Dearborn Partners), Ilypsa (acquired by Amgen), Miikana (acquired by EntreMed), Panomics (acquired by Affymetrix), Pear Therapeutics, Precision NanoSystems, RuiYi, Synosia (acquired by Biotie) and Viveve (Public). Mr. Schwab also serves on the board of the California Academy of Sciences. Mr. Schwab received a B.S. with Honors in Genetics & Ethics from Davidson College and was a member of Davidson’s 1992 Final Four soccer team. Mr. Schwab is based in the Menlo Park, CA office

Research Interest

 Cancer