Neena Kadaba

Neena S. Kadaba, Ph.D. is the Director of Industry Alliances at QB3 (the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences), a state institute that accelerates the commercialization of innovations from UCSF, UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz.  Neena works to initiate collaborations between industry partners and faculty from these three campuses, as well as startups in the QB3 ecosystem. She manages QB3’s academic-industry partnership with Pfizer and is a Partner at Mission Bay Capital, QB3’s affiliated seed-stage venture capital fund.  Neena also manages QB3’s program designed to foster collaborations between industry and early stage startups, QB3 Collaborative Startups, which currently partners with Pfizer, Roche, Bayer, J&J and Takeda.  Neena runs an industry speaker series designed to foster industry partnerships. Previously, she co-founded Cypress Innovations and was an Associate and Kauffman Fellow in the venture capital group at Itochu Technology. She completed her PhD in Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology and received a BS in Chemistry and a MS in Bioengineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For more information about QB3, please visit www.qb3.org.