Jiaping Gu focuses on early-stage biotech in China for Pfizer Ventures, building on more than 10 years of neurodegeneration research in both pharma and academia, including published work on microtubules in dendritic spine development. His path also includes corporate venture work at Takeda Ventures and crossover investing at Hillhouse before Pfizer, plus an education that started at Tsinghua University in China and continued with a neuroscience PhD at Rutgers in the US.
About their Fund
Pfizer Venture Investments is a strategic venture fund that doesn't require product or technology rights as a condition of investing, giving founders independence while still aiming for future collaboration with Pfizer, and its team blends venture investing with business development and drug discovery expertise to back frontier scientific bets—such as neuroscience, in-vivo cell engineering, dark-genome target discovery, and the blockchain-based longevity accelerator VitaDAO—that many biotech investors avoid. The fund also runs an active China strategy through a locally based venture vehicle and direct investments like OTR Therapeutics, and it has become a channel for strategic deals, with portfolio companies acquired by AbbVie, Ipsen, and Gilead/Kite.
















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