Dirk Kersten
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About
Dirk Kersten is a Dutch life sciences venture capitalist and Managing Partner at Forbion, where he manages the Forbion Growth Opportunities Fund. He joined Forbion in 2018 after serving as a Partner at Gilde Healthcare Partners and Managing Director at INKEF Capital. He sits on the boards of Dyne Therapeutics, SynOx Therapeutics, and NorthSea Therapeutics and has led or supported growth-stage biotech investments across rare disease, oncology, metabolic disease, and RNA therapeutics.
Areas of interest
biotechlife sciencesrare diseasesoncologymetabolic diseaseinflammatory diseaseRNA therapeuticsmuscle diseasesclinical-stage drug development