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About Investor

Michael Rome is a Managing Director at Foresite Capital and Co-Head of its therapeutics investing practice, based in Los Angeles. His investing focus centers on biotech and therapeutics, and also touches adjacent healthcare areas like digital health/health IT and consumer health. His typical stage spans Seed through Series B, and his reported investment range is $100K to $5.0M (sweet spot $1.5M). His background includes a PhD in Biochemistry from Caltech, prior public-markets therapeutics coverage as an analyst, and leading company formation, financings, and M&A work in his investing career.