Vicore Team

Carl-Johan Dalsgaard has been a Venture Partner at HealthCap since 2000, thereby he has served as CEO of several companies in which HealthCap has invested. Prior to that, he has ten years of experience from senior positions within the AstraZeneca Group, such as pre-clinical research director, therapeutic area manager of pain and anesthesia, CEO of Astra Pain Control AB and part of the Group’s research management team.

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Education: MD from the Karolinska Institute. PhD in neurobiology and post-doc experience from Harvard Medical School. Carl-Johan Dalsgaard has also completed a specialist training in plastic surgery.

Hans Jeppsson has a cross-disciplinary background in finance and medicine. He has previously worked as a biotech analyst at Danske Bank as well as within preclinical research at AstraZeneca R&D.

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Education: Ph.D. in Strategic Financial Management from the University of Gothenburg. After he obtained his Ph.D.-degree he conducted postdoctoral studies at the Haas School of Business at the UC Berkeley in the US. He also has a background in chemical engineering with a focus on biotechnology from Chalmers University of Technology.

Elin Rosendahl has more than 20 years’ experience of managing global biopharmaceutical development programs and leading cross-functional teams. Solid experience of all phases of clinical drug development with focus on design of innovative and patient-focused paths to market, effective management of global, cross-functional teams and optimized collaborations with contract research organizations (CROs)

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Education: M.Sc, Pharmacy from Uppsala University

Rohit Batta has 18 years of experience as a medical doctor with an extensive background leading medical and clinical development teams whilst developing drugs for rare diseases. His previous roles include Senior Director of Cell and Gene Therapy at GlaxoSmithKline leading the clinical development and defining the clinical strategy for haemoglobinopathy gene therapy medicines. He also led the global medical and late stage clinical development teams to launch the world’s first gene therapy for patients with a paediatric rare disease. Rohit holds an MBBS from Kings College London and is a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine.

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Education: MBBS from Kings College London and is a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine.

Johan Raud has more than 20 years of experience from heading research teams and managing drug discovery projects in both big pharma and startups. Johan gained his MD, PhD and Associate Professorship at Karolinska Institutet and Vanderbilt University.

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Education: MD PhD from the Karolinska Institute and Vanderbilt university, USA

Ola is PhD and Assoc. Prof. in Pharmaceutics & Biopharmaceutics and  expert in drug formulation/delivery. He has more than 30 years of experience in drug development e.g. Director of Pharmaceutical R&D at Pharmacia, Astra/AstraZeneca, VP Drug Development and Board member at Biotech Companies and Senior Adviser at Karolinska Institutet Innovation AB. Ola is member of  the Review Panel of the Swedish research council.

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Education: PhD and Assoc. Prof

Johanna has a Ph.D and expertise in pharmaceutical metabolism. She has extensive experience in preclinical interpretation and is responsible for drug development projects.

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Education: MSc PhD

Nina has more than 20 years experience of working with communication and administration in the medical industry.

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