Halina Novak

About

Halina Novak, PhD, is an Associate Partner at Fund+. Halina brings extensive experience in technology innovation, investment and alliance management. Formerly, Halina held several leadership positions at VIB, the Flemish Institute for Biotechnology and worked at the intersection between industry, pharma and academia, leading large multi-stakeholder collaborations. Notably, she headed the Tech Watch Program and established the Technology Innovation Lab, where unique strategies were developed to identify, invest and evaluate breakthrough life science technologies in collaboration with start-ups and pharma. Many of these early-stage investments in disruptive tools have since revolutionised the Life Sciences. Halina started her career at Unilever on a fellowship that developed novel applications of industrial enzymes after having graduated from the University of Exeter with a PhD and BSc in Biological Sciences and Biological and Medicinal Chemistry, respectively. Halina previously represen

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