The Rufus / Nature Biotech VC investment map. Launched July 2016. Click here for the map |
I am William Bains. I founded Rufus in 2002 to provide support for new start-up companies in UK life science. I am an internationally recognised innovator in the life sciences, with a track record of successfully predicting where new science and technology will lead, and building companies around that understanding that apply new science and make money for investors and entrepreneurs. After a research career in academia, I worked in technological consulting, venture capital and with start-up biotech companies. In 2000 I founded Amedis Pharmaceuticals, and lead the company through its seed and first round funding, recruitment of a management team, filing its first patents and closing its first pharmaceutical company collaboration. Since then I have split my time between teaching, academic research and start-up creation and investment. |
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Since 2002 I have founded Delta G Ltd., Opal Drug Discovery, and Five Alarm Bio. I have also founded two scientific journals, and been a member of the founding team of another three biotech companies and a UK charity. I have taught at the Universities of Cambridge and Warwick in the UK, and I continue to be active in research through part time research positions at MIT and Cardiff. A short CV can be downloaded here. |