About Edward van Wezel | Managing partner & Founder, BioGeneration Ventures

Edward van Wezel is managing partner and founder of BioGeneration Ventures. Edward has extensive international expertise in small and large pharma and biotech companies. Edward currently serves on the the boards of NovioGendix, Progentix Orthobiology, Cristal Therapeutics and Acerta Pharma. He served on the board of BioCeros that was sold in 2011. Edward started his industrial career as process engineer for Chiron Inc. and working for Johnson & Johnson as project manager. At J&J he was responsible for preclinical and Phase II product development projects in the oncology franchise. In addition he was involved in in-licensing activities. Since 2000 he gained experience in several small start-up and early stage companies in the Netherlands. He was director business development at Pepscan Systems and managing director of Macrozyme. At Macrozyme Edward was responsible for the complete pre-clinical development of a new chemical entity that under his responsibility was successfully partnered with Genzyme Inc. in 2005. Edward holds a M.Sc in chemistry from the University of Utrecht and a M.Sc in biochemical engineering from the Delft University of Technology.