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Desmond Padhi

Investor

Operating Partner at Westlake Village BioPartners

California

Writes $100K – $5M checks · typically $1.5M

About

Operating Partner working across the firm and portfolio companies to advance medicines into the clinic, serving as founding CEO of Capsida Biotherapeutics and interim CEO of Latigo Biotherapeutics. Previously spent 20 years at Amgen and holds a PharmD from Wayne State University.

Experience

  1. Westlake Village BioPartners®Operating Partnercurrent2023 — presentWestlake Village, California, United States
  2. Westlake Village BioPartners®Principal2020 — 2023Westlake Village
  3. Westlake Village BioPartners®Associate Partner2019 — 2020Westlake Village
  4. Latigo Biotherapeutics, Inc.Interim CEO2023 — 2024Thousand Oaks, California, United States
  5. AmgenVice President Pharmacokinetics & Drug Metabolism, Clinical Pharmacology & Modeling and Simulation2018 — 2019Thousand Oaks
  6. AmgenVice President Medical Sciences2014 — 2018Thousand Oaks
  7. AmgenExecutive Director Medical Sciences1999 — 2014Thousand Oaks, Ca
  8. Schering-Plough Research InstituteAssistant Director Clinical Pharmacology1996 — 1999

Education

  1. Wayne State UniversityFellowship1994 — 1996
  2. Wayne State UniversityPharmD1992 — 1994
  3. University of SaskatchewanBSc, Pharmacy1987 — 1991

Skills & more

Clinical Development29Drug Development32Oncology12Biotechnology21Biopharmaceuticals30Translational Medicine3Clinical Pharmacology46Internal Medicine18GCP2Market Access3Biomarkers5Drug Discovery8
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