
Boston has long been a global hub for biotech innovation, bringing together startups, researchers, pharmaceutical companies, and investors shaping the future of life sciences. But in today’s shifting investment landscape, founders and investors alike are navigating new questions around growth and funding.
This conversation brings together leaders in Boston’s life sciences ecosystem to explore the current state of biotech investment from both industry and VC perspectives. Together, they will look at where momentum is building across the sector, how companies are adapting to today’s market conditions, and what opportunities lie ahead for the next generation of biotech innovation. Bringing together voices from Switzerland and the US, the evening offers a chance to connect around one of the world’s most dynamic biotech ecosystems and the global networks helping shape its future.
This event is presented in collaboration with the ETH Alumni Association, part of a new series of briefings on strategic developments in key industries and innovation sectors.
Program
- 5:30pm – Doors open
- 6:00pm – Remarks: Philippe Roesle, CEO, Swissnex in Boston and New York
- 6:05pm – Remarks: Sven Corus, Head of Alumni Engagement, ETH Zurich
- 6:15pm – Panel Discussion
- 7:00pm – Networking
- 8:30pm – End
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Event start time
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Boston
5:30PM
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Bio
Dean Glettig
CMC Program Lead
ModernaDean Glettig is a biotechnology and product development leader with experience spanning academic research, venture-backed startups, and global biopharmaceutical companies. He currently serves as a CMC Program Lead at Moderna, overseeing programs from early development through commercialization. Prior to Moderna, he spent seven years at Finch Therapeutics, helping build and scale the company’s microbiome therapeutics platform. Earlier in his career, he conducted research in the Langer Lab at MIT and the Kaplan Lab at Tufts University, contributing to innovations that resulted in multiple patents.
A graduate of ETH Zurich with degrees in Chemistry, Dean has spent the past two decades in the Greater Boston area while maintaining strong ties to Switzerland and its innovation ecosystem. As founder of the ETH Alumni New England Chapter, he has helped foster connections between Swiss and Boston-based researchers, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders. His experience across academia, startups, and established biotech companies provides a broad perspective on biotechnology innovation, investment, and commercialization.
Speakers
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Julie Gupta
Senior Associate, Corporate Development
RA CapitalJulie Gupta is a Senior Associate, Corporate Development on the Venture Team at RA Capital. Her primary responsibilities are to interface closely with pharmaceutical companies to do BD for the RA portfolio as well as help build new companies around pharma assets available for externalization. Prior to RA, Julie was a Life Sciences Investor at General Catalyst, where she diligenced new life sciences investments (majority biotech/therapeutics companies) and was deeply involved in early-stage portfolio company support. Prior to General Catalyst, Julie was a strategy consultant at Putnam Associates, where she specialized in early-stage biotech corporate strategy. Julie holds a BA in biochemistry from Barnard College of Columbia University and a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Michigan.
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Rajesh Ramaswamy
Head of AI
Precede BiosciencesRajesh Ramaswamy is building the next generation of intelligent systems that transform how we understand, predict, and engineer complex systems across health, finance, and the physical world. His work focuses on turning traditionally empirical disciplines into continuously learning, AI-driven systems that improve with every interaction. Across startups, growth-stage companies, and global enterprises, he has led the development and deployment of AI systems that deliver measurable scientific, operational, and commercial impact.
He is currently Head of AI at Precede Biosciences, where he leads the strategy, development, and deployment of foundational AI systems for diagnostics and data products. His work is focused on transforming blood into a continuously updated representation of human biology, enabling earlier and more precise interventions, and ultimately a shift from reactive to adaptive healthcare. By combining multimodal data, machine learning, and scalable AI infrastructure, he is helping build systems capable of decoding complex diseases from genomic signals in blood at population scale.
Previously, Rajesh was Senior Vice President and Founding Head of AI at Sail Biomedicines, where he led the design and deployment of the company’s AI system for generating medicines. His work advanced a shift in drug creation from a process driven by chance to one grounded in engineering, where outcomes can be systematically improved and accelerated. The AI platform he helped pioneer contributed to multiple programs, including an in vivo CAR-T program.
Earlier, Rajesh founded and built the Data Driven Innovation office at EMD Serono, the North American biopharma business of Merck KGaA. There, he established enterprise AI capabilities and applied machine learning across the organization, enabling more effective commercial strategies and contributing to billion+ dollar product launches in Neurology, Immunology, and Oncology.
Rajesh began his career in quantitative finance, where he developed machine learning systems operating at the scale of billions of options trades per day across global markets.
He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
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George Arnold
Managing Principal
KnightsbridgeGeorge is actively involved in all aspects of portfolio management, including all investment due diligence and decision-making processes.
George joined Knightsbridge from Citigroup Private Equity where he was Director and Head of Venture/Growth Equity Fund Investments. At Citigroup, George was responsible for more than 100 fund relationships with commitments of $1.3 billion. Additionally, he was a member of several advisory boards and brought Citigroup into 29 new venture and growth equity funds, many of which were access-restricted. Prior to this role, George invested directly in private technology companies on behalf of Citigroup alongside venture investors, serving as a director or observer on many of their boards.
Earlier in his career, George spent five years as an engineer and project manager with a Silicon Valley technology company. George also holds a patent related to metallic access subscriber line testing.
George is a Swiss national, a former Swiss Army officer, and a graduate of the Swiss Institute of Technology (Dipl.El.-Ing.ETH). He came to the United States to earn an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, followed by an MBA from Santa Clara University.



