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Ian Weeks Dr Steve Riley Simon Jones Michael Owen P S N Bhatt Dr Richard Adams Dhananjay Patel Megha G Pandya Lai Liangxue Hetal D Vyas Maxim Shyshkin Dr. Md. Ibrahim Khalil Mark Weatherall MOHD. SAJID KHAN Newton F Adkinson Alison G Abraham David B Abrams Patricia Priest Peter C Agre Julian Crane View MoreHakan Goker (Ph.D.) is a senior investment director at Merck Ventures, corporate venture arm of the biopharmaceutical division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. Hakan joined Merck Ventures in 2013 and previously was investing as a partner at Aescap Venture and prior to that at Atlas Venture. Since 2006, Hakan was instrumental in the creation, financing, and strategy of multiple biotechnology companies globally including Asceneuron (CH), Orphazyme (DK), Nimbus Discovery (US), F Star (NL), Bicycle Therapeutics (UK) and Nitec now Horizon Pharma (CH/US). Hakan received his PhD in cancer biology from the Institute of Cancer Research/ University of London and continued his scientific career with post-doctoral work at the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Centre/Royal Marsden Hospital. He gained his BSc Honours, from University College London. Hakan is a board member of Asceneuron, Artios Pharma, Forendo, Raze Therapeutics, Tocopherx, Synaffix, and Storm Therapeutics.
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