Tariq Warsi, PhD dark+linkedin

Venture Partner

Tariq Warsi is a Venture Partner at Awaken Capital. He is the Alfred E. Mann Institute Investment Director at the University of Southern California, an Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of California Riverside, and a multi-industry expert across Synthetic Biology, Cell Therapy, Genome Editing, and Therapeutics. Previously Tariq was Senior Director at AstraZeneca, Vice President of Technical Operations at Novome Biotechnologies and held a number of scientific roles in industry and academia, including at Amgen, Aurora Algae, and Stanford University. Tariq completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard Medical School and earned a PhD in cell and molecular biology and a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from the University of California Riverside.