Kim Kamdar

Bio

In addition to her role at Adjuvant, Kim is also currently a Partner at Domain Associates where she has been involved in cutting-edge therapeutic start-ups and has been a major part of identifying companies with promising molecular and companion diagnostics to support personalized medicine. Present board memberships include Aspen Neuroscience, Epic Sciences, Evofem Biosciences, Obalon Therapeutics, Omniome, Seraphina, Sera Prognostics, Singular Genomics, and Truvian Sciences. She also helped to create and was formerly a board member of Syndax Pharmaceuticals and Tragara Pharmaceuticals. Kim was involved with Ariosa Diagnostics until the company was sold to Roche in January 2015, Corthera until the company was sold to Novartis in February 2010 and BiPar Sciences until that company was sold to Sanofi in April 2009. Kim is also a Kauffman Fellow alum. Prior to Domain, she was a research director at Novartis, where she built and led a research team that focused on the biology, genetics and genomics of model organisms. Kim is the author of ten papers as well as the inventor on seven patents. She received her B.A. from Northwestern University and her Ph.D. in biochemistry and genetics from Emory University. Kim serves as an advisory board member of Dr. Eric Topol’s NIH supported Clinical and Translational Science Award for Scripps Medicine and is a former advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.