Srinivas Akkaraju

Srinivas is the Founder and Managing General Partner at Samsara BioCapital. His previous positions include General Partner of Sofinnova Ventures, Managing Director of New Leaf Venture Partners, and Co-Founder and Managing Director at Panorama Capital, LLC, a private equity firm. Prior to co-founding Panorama Capital, Srinivas was a Partner with J.P. Morgan Partners. He also worked in Business and Corporate Development at Genentech (now a wholly owned member of The Roche Group), a biotechnology company.

Prior to joining Genentech, Srinivas was a graduate student at Stanford University, where he received his M.D. and a Ph.D. in Immunology. He received his undergraduate degrees in Biochemistry and Computer Science from Rice University. Srinivas serves as a Director of Chinook Therapeutics, Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Syros Pharmaceuticals, and Jiya Acquisition Corp. Previously, he served as a Director on the boards of Seattle Genetics, Principia Biopharma, Aravive, Inc., Barrier Therapeutics, Eyetech Pharmaceuticals, ZS Pharma, Synageva Biopharma Corp., and Amarin Corporation.