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About Investor

John Gustofson is the Head of Chugai Venture Fund, LLC (CVF), based in the Boston area. CVF focuses on preclinical life sciences investments across digital technologies (for drug discovery/development), platform technologies, and therapeutics in areas like oncology, immunology, CNS, ophthalmology, and rare diseases. CVF’s typical investment size is described as “mid-single million US dollar,” with reserves for follow-on investments, and it initially focuses on the United States, Western Europe, and Japan. Before CVF, he was a Managing Director at AbbVie Ventures and previously held business development roles at several life sciences companies.