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Larry Bock

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Larry is a Special Limited Partner and currently serves as Chairman of Lux Ventures’ Advisory Board of industry experts advising the Investment Team. Larry was a co-founder and executive chairman of Nanosys, Inc. Prior to Nanosys, he was a managing general partner of CW Group, a life sciences venture capital fund. Larry was also a general partner of Avalon Ventures, a seed stage venture capital firm.

Larry has been the founder and initial chief executive officer of Metra Biosystems, Inc., Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: NBIX - neuroimmunology), Pharmacopeia, Inc. (NASDAQ: PCOP – combinatorial chemistry), Argonaut Technologies, Inc (NASDAQ: AGNT – combinatorial chemistry), and Caliper Technologies Corp (NASDAQ: CALP – lab-on-a-chip). Mr. Bock was also a co-founder of ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc (NASDAQ: ARIA – intra cellular signal transduction), Athena Neurosciences (NASDAQ: ATHN, acquired by Elan Pharmaceuticals for $700M – molecular neurobiology) Inc., GenPharm International (acquired by MedaRx– transgenic animals), Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRTX – rational drug design), Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ONXX – molecular oncology) and Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN – array based optical sensors).

Milestones

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  Larry Bock added a position as Co-Founder at Illumina.
  Posted 8/30/10 at 1:32pm
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  Larry Bock added a position as Co-Founder at Onyx Pharmaceuticals.
  Posted 8/30/10 at 1:32pm
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  Larry Bock added a position as Co-Founder at Vertex Pharmaceuticals.
  Posted 8/30/10 at 1:32pm
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  Larry Bock added a position as Co-Founder at GenPharm International .
  Posted 8/30/10 at 1:32pm
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  Larry Bock added a position as Co-Founder at Athena Neurosciences.
  Posted 8/30/10 at 1:32pm
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  Larry Bock added a position as Co-Founder at ARIAD Pharmaceuticals.
  Posted 8/30/10 at 1:32pm
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  Larry Bock added a position as Founder & CEO at Caliper Technologies.
  Posted 8/30/10 at 1:32pm
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  Larry Bock added a position as Founder & CEO at Argonaut Technologies.
  Posted 8/30/10 at 1:32pm
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  Larry Bock added a position as Founder & CEO at Pharmacopeia.
  Posted 8/30/10 at 1:32pm
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  Larry Bock added a position as Founder & CEO at Neurocrine Biosciences.
  Posted 8/30/10 at 1:32pm
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  Larry Bock added a position as Founder & CEO at Metra Biosystems.
  Posted 8/30/10 at 1:32pm
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  Larry Bock added a position as Managing General Partner at CW Group.
  Posted 8/30/10 at 1:28pm
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  Larry Bock added a position as Chairman at Lux Ventures.
  Posted 8/30/10 at 1:27pm
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  Larry Bock added a position as Founder & Executive Director at nanosys.
  Posted 8/30/10 at 1:25pm
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  Larry Bock invested in zozi. (8/30/10)
  Posted 8/27/10 at 8:34pm via techcrunch.com
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  Larry Bock invested in zozi. (8/1/08)
  Posted 10/19/09 at 9:09am via techcrunch.com

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1. UC Berkeley gets $500K gift for first nanotechnology chair Read more: UC Berkeley gets $500K gift for first nanotechnology chair - San Francisco Business Times (sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com) [edit]
2. Local-Activity Site Zozi Lands $3 Million Series A From 500 Startups And Zig Capital (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]