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#601: Inside the Investor’s Mind: How Today’s Biotech Investors Choose Where to Place Their Bets
Wednesday June 17, 2026 10:15am - 11:30am EDT
103A
Component Type: Session
Level: Advanced

This session takes participants inside the investor’s mind in today’s complex funding environment. Investors and financial leaders will discuss how they evaluate pipelines, platforms, and partnerships, where they look for differentiated deal flow, how valuation frameworks are changing, and what ultimately convinces them to lean in—or pass.

Learning Objectives

Explain how current biotech investors evaluate pipelines, platforms, and partnerships in today’s funding climate; Describe how valuation frameworks, risk appetite, and evidence expectations are evolving across stages and modalities; Identify what ultimately convinces investors to engage, lean in, or pass and how companies can position themselves accordingly.

Chair

Raju Kucherlapati

Speaker

Panelist
Jay Roberts, MBA

Panelist
Sahirzeeshan Ali

Panelist
Mey Boukenna, MD, PHD


Speakers
avatar for Sahirzeeshan Ali

Sahirzeeshan Ali

Founder and General Partner, Modi Ventures, United States
Sahir Ali is the founder of Modi Ventures, a venture capital firm at the forefront of investing in the convergence of biology and technology. With a focus on scientific superintelligence and the engineering of life, he has backed breakthrough companies advancing AI-driven drug discovery... Read More →
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Mey Boukenna

Partner, Life Sciences & Healthcare Investments, PagsGroup, United States
Mey Boukenna, M.D., Ph.D., leads Biotechnology and Healthcare Investments at PagsGroup, Steve Pagliuca’s family office. She transitioned to investments after starting her career in medicine and research at the University of Bern, Switzerland. There, she conducted a few years of... Read More →
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Raju Kucherlapati

Paul C. Cabot Professor of Genetics and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, United States
Since 2001 Dr. Kucherlapati is the Paul C. Cabot Professor of Genetics and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and was the first Scientific Director of the Harvard Medical School-Partners HealthCare Center for Genetics and Genomics (HPCGG). He was a co-founder of several... Read More →
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Jay Roberts

Partner, Ventac Partners, United States
Senior strategic executive in the biopharma industry for over 30 yrs. Serving as an Executive Advisor for Life365, a next generation AI platform connecting patients and providers. Also serves as a Partner with Ventac Partners, a global venture catalyst in life sciences and a Venture... Read More →
Wednesday June 17, 2026 10:15am - 11:30am EDT
103A The Pennsylvania Convention Center 1101 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 USA
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