Ruben Sebastian

Senior Associate at Criteria Bio Ventures

Speaker

Ruben Sebastian is a Senior Associate at Criteria Bio Ventures investing in and building biotech companies. Before joining Criteria Bio Ventures, Ruben was a Technology and Business Development fellow at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) technology transfer office, where he advised entrepreneurs on R&D, intellectual property protection, and commercialization strategies. Additionally, he has provided due diligence support in biopharma and therapeutics deals as an independent consultant to early-stage investment firms in Spain and the US.

Ruben holds a Ph.D. in Biomedicine from the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), where he studied genome organization and epigenetics in stem cells and during cellular reprogramming and contributed to developing novel cell therapies for regenerative medicine, and a master’s degree in Cancer Biology from the University of Barcelona.