Nisha Marathe joined the Roche Venture Fund in 2016. Prior to RVF, she was an associate with Mission Bay Capital and Business Manager at QB3@953 (now MBC BioLabs), a life-sciences incubator based in San Francisco. Dr. Marathe completed her post-doctoral training at UCSF where she also worked as a Technology Analyst with the Office of Technology Management. She holds a Ph.D. from UCSD in Molecular and Cell Biology and received her B.S. from UCLA, graduating cum laude and with College Honors. Nisha currently holds board positions at Freenome and Kumquat Biosciences. She formerly held board positions at a number of companies including Care Innovations, Ideaya, and Vaxcyte.