Jim Barrett

Biography

 Jim Barrett served as our chairman of the board from our founding in September 2009 until January 2017. Dr. Barrett has served as a general partner of New Enterprise Associates, a venture capital fund, since August 2001. From January 1997 to 2001 he served as chairman of the board of directors of Sensors for Medicine and Science, Inc., a medical device company which he founded in 1997. Dr. Barrett currently serves on the board of directors of each of the following publicly-held companies: Clovis Oncology, Inc. (NASDAQ:CLVS), a biopharmaceutical company focused on anti-cancer agents, since April 2009; GlycoMimetics, Inc. (NASDAQ GLYC), since 2003, Proteostasis Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTI), since 2015, Senseonics Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SENS), since 1996 and Zosano Pharma Corporation (NASDAQ: ZSAN), a specialty pharmaceutical company, since 2012. In addition, Dr. Barrett currently serves as a member of the board of directors of a number of private companies. In addition, within the past five years, Dr. Barrett has previously served on the board of directors of each of the following publicly-held companies: Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUPN), a specialty pharamaceutical company, Loxo Oncology, Inc. (NASDAQ: LOXO), a biopharmaceutical company focused on targeted cancer therapies, Zosano Pharma Corporation (NASDAQ: ZSAN), a specialty pharmaceutical company, Targacept, Inc., (NASDAQ: TRGT), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, from 2002 until May 2013; Amicus Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: FOLD), a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company focused on therapies for rare and orphan diseases, from August 2009 to February 2015; Inhibitex, Inc. from 2002 until it was sold to Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY), a global biopharmaceutical company, in 2012; and YM Biosciences, Inc. (NYSE MKT: YMI, TSX: YM), a Canadian-based biopharmaceutical company subsequently acquired by Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: GILD). Dr. Barrett received a B.S. in Chemistry from Boston College, a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Tennessee and an M.B.A. from the University of Santa Clara. We believe that Dr. Barrett’s extensive experience as a venture capital investor focused on the healthcare industry, as a founder of numerous companies and entrepreneur, as a director of numerous publicly-traded pharmaceutical companies, and his strong capital markets experience qualifies him to serve as a member of our board of directors.  

Research Interest

  Biopharmaceutical