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Contact info: (415) 352-1520 jwlarrick(at)cmea(dot)com |
Executive Assistant Contact info: Kari Camozzi (415) 524-7326 kari(at)vpd(dot)net |
Joined CMEA: 2010
Years Experience Building Companies: 25
Education: Duke University School of Medicine, MD, PhD.Stanford Medical Center (Housestaff)
Deal Starters: Honesty, perseverance and entrepreneurs “with skin in the game.”
Non-starters: Lack of integrity. Ignore or fail to properly interpret important or conflicting data.
Outside Activities: Anthropology, photography, sailing and raising proteas, the “most amazing flowers on the planet.”
As founder of the nonprofit Panorama Institute of Molecular Medicine, and later Panorama Research Inc., Jim Larrick has helped to incubate dozens of pharmaceutical molecules that later addressed unmet needs in cancer and a host of infectious and autoimmune diseases.
At CMEA, Larrick will move drugs from incubation to cultivation and maturation. His deep experience in evaluating early-stage projects is critical to CMEA's mission of bringing new drug therapies to market.
Having co-founded more than a dozen companies, Larrick brings both entrepreneurial and medical experience to CMEA. He co-founded Planet Biotechnology, Kalobios, Galaxy Biotech and PanGenetics, to name a few. In a 25-year career, he has written or co-authored eight books, over 250 papers and 40 patents, and served on the editorial board of six journals.
Typical of CMEA scientists, Larrick possesses an unbridled curiosity and drive for discovery, as evidenced by his passion for anthropology. Larrick has led a number of biomedical expeditions to study nutrition, malaria, genetics, and high altitude adaptation among the native peoples of New Guinea, Ecuador, Peru, Nepal and Tibet. To further his interest in the health of less developed countries he supports and serves on the boards of two non-profits, the Sustainable Sciences Institute and the Sankofa Center for African Dance and Culture.
CMEA investors will be glad he always returns home to San Francisco.