Brian Atwood

Biography

 Brian Atwood is President, CEO, and co-founder of Cell Design Labs, a company focused on developing the human cell engineering technology from the UC San Francisco lab of Wendell Lim. Mr. Atwood is also a co-founder and Managing Director at Versant Ventures, a leading healthcare-focused venture capital firm. In addition, he has more than 15 years of operating experience in the biotechnology industry. Prior to launching his career in venture capital, Mr. Atwood was founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Glycomed, Inc. Mr. Atwood began his biotechnology career at Cetus Corporation where he had multiple responsibilities, including product development with initial commercial development of its PCR (polymerase chain reaction) technology through the Perkin Elmer/Cetus Instruments joint venture, of which he was a director. Mr. Atwood currently serves as a board member of the private company Atreca as well as the public companies PhaseRx (PZRX) and Clovis Oncology, Inc. (CLVS). Mr. Atwood earned his undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Irvine; an MS in Ecology from the University of California, Davis; and an MBA from Harvard Business School.  

Research Interest

 Cell biology