Kumaraguru Raja, Ph.D., MBA

Venture Partner, LemVega Biotech Venture Fund at LemVega Capital™
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Experience

    • Puerto Rico
    • Investment Management
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Venture Partner, LemVega Biotech Venture Fund
      • Aug 2023 - 5 months
    • United States
    • Investment Banking
    • Managing Director, Senior Research Analyst
      • Sep 2022 - Aug 2023

      New York City Metropolitan Area

    • United States
    • Investment Banking
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Director, Senior Biotechnology Analyst
      • 2017 - Sep 2022

      New York Equity research covering biotechnology companies.

    • Capital Markets
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Vice President, Biotechnology Research
      • 2015 - 2017

      New York Equity research covering US biotechnology companies.

    • United States
    • Financial Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Senior Associate Analyst, Biotechnology Equity Research
      • 2010 - 2015

      New York City Equity research covering US biotechnology companies.

    • CFO
      • 2009 - 2010

      Oversaw the marketing and execution of professional workshops and business competitions culminating in the grand business plan competition. Winners of the competition have been successful in raising capital. http://challenge.ucsd.edu/

    • Graduate Assistant
      • 2009 - 2010

      Managerial Accounting Organizational Leadership Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility http://rady.ucsd.edu/

    • United States
    • Research Services
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • Postdoctoral Research
      • 2006 - 2008

      Torrance, California Elucidated the molecular mechanisms concerning the role of human bone marrow stromal stem cells in normal and leukemic hematopoiesis. Established functions of mesenchymal stem cells and embryonic stem cells by studying their protein and gene expression patterns using proteomics and genomics. Peer-reviewed Publications: http://www.clinicalproteomicsjournal.com/content/8/1/10?fmt_view=mobile Immobilized pH Gradient-Driven Paper-Based IEF: A New Method for Fractionating Complex… Show more Elucidated the molecular mechanisms concerning the role of human bone marrow stromal stem cells in normal and leukemic hematopoiesis. Established functions of mesenchymal stem cells and embryonic stem cells by studying their protein and gene expression patterns using proteomics and genomics. Peer-reviewed Publications: http://www.clinicalproteomicsjournal.com/content/8/1/10?fmt_view=mobile Immobilized pH Gradient-Driven Paper-Based IEF: A New Method for Fractionating Complex Peptide Mixtures Before MS Analysis Beerelli Seshi, Kumaraguru Raja, K H Chandramouli Clinical Proteomics 2011, 8:10 (15 June 2011) Show less

    • United States
    • Hospitals and Health Care
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Postdoctoral Research
      • 2006 - 2006

      Conducted research in the area of epigenetic silencing to understand the epigenetic causes of cancer.

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Graduate Assistant
      • 2001 - 2005

      Peer-reviewed Publications: http://thescipub.com/html/10.3844/ajbbsp.2006.25.32 Structure function analysis of NifM protein interaction with the Fe protein of nitrogenase of Azotobacter vinelandii. Gene expression analysis using affymetrix P. aeruginosa Gene Chip® expression arrays. Protein-Protein interactions and genomics.

    • Research Services
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Project Trainee
      • 2000 - 2001

      Research in area of environmental biotechnology. Peer-reviewed Publications: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956053X02001502 Microbial degradation of pyridine using Pseudomonassp. and isolation of plasmid responsible for degradation

Education

  • University of California, San Diego - The Rady School of Management
    MBA, Finance
  • Bowling Green State University
    PhD, Molecular Microbiology
    2001 - 2006
  • Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
    MSc, Environmental Science and Technology
  • Osmania University
    B.Sc, Botany Chemistry Zoology

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