Managing Director and Co-Founder
venBio LLC

Corey Goodman, Ph.D., is Managing Director and co-founder of venBio LLC, Adjunct Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, and Chair of the Board of Directors of Limerick BioPharma, iPierian, PhyloTech, and Oligasis, Vice Chair of the Supervisory Board of Evotec, and member of the Board of NeuroTherapeutics Pharma and Mirna Therapeutics.

Corey received his B.S. from Stanford University, Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley, and was a postdoctoral fellow at U.C. San Diego. He spent over two decades as a professor of biology and neuroscience at Stanford and U.C. Berkeley. He won numerous scientific awards (e.g., Alan T. Waterman Award from the National Science Board, Gairdner International Award for Achievement in Medical Sciences, March-of-Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology), was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Evan Rauch Chair of Neuroscience, and co-founded the Wills Neuroscience Institute.

Corey was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.

He is co-founder of three biotechnology companies – Exelixis, Renovis, and PhyloTech -- and served as CEO of Renovis prior to its acquisition by Evotec.

Corey spent two years as President of Pfizer’s Biotherapeutics and Bioinnovation Center (BBC), and a member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team.

Corey is a member of the California Council on Science and Technology, the Board of the Pacific Institute, McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience, BayBio, Biotechnology Institute, Bay Area Science and Innovation Consortium, QB3 (UCSF-UCB-UCSC) Industry Advisory Board, Stanford’s BioX Biosciences Advisory Council, Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research (of Harvard and MIT), and is former Chair of the National Research Council's Board on Life Sciences. He is also on the Editorial/Advisory Board of the journals Science Translational Medicine and Neuron.

He and his wife Marcia Barinaga oversee the Barinaga Ranch and farmsted sheep dairy in West Marin, California, where Marcia produces artisanal sheep cheese.