Adam Tomasi, Ph.D.
Principal
Adam joined Alta partners in 2006 as a Kauffman Fellow, and was promoted to Principal in 2009. Originally trained as an organic and medicinal chemist, Adam spent seven years in early stage drug discovery with Gilead Sciences and Cytokinetics. In his last technical position, he founded and led the Anti-Infectives Medicinal Chemistry Program at Cytokinetics, which was the first group to validate KIP-1 as an anti-fungal target, and played a key role in the creation of Cytokinetics’ cardiovascular drug CK-1827452, which is currently in clinical trials.
Prior to joining Alta, Adam was a student in the Harvard-MIT Biomedical Enterprise Program; he completed internships at MPM Capital and Lehman Brothers, where he was an Analyst covering the biotech sector, and attended the Harvard Medical School. Adam completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Irvine, where he was a Fellow of the American Chemical Society and the University of California Regents, and was a post doctoral student with Peter Schultz at The Scripps Research Institute/The Genomics Institute of the Novartis Foundation.
Adam holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Irvine, and a Masters of Business Administration from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
