Nuno Arantes-Oliveira is an entrepreneur, investor and academic with a scientific background and an interest in innovation, particularly in the Life Sciences and in Healthcare. Nuno is one of the four partners of Clinical Research Ventures (CRV), a Boston-based global investment fund focused on clinical-stage biotech and medtech companies. Nuno began his career as an invited graduate student working on the genetics of aging at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). There his research led to the largest lifespan extension ever observed in any living being (more than 6-fold), which in turn originated a string of high-impact papers. Later Nuno did a post-doc on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Biotechnology and, since 2003, founded and/or served as CEO of various companies in Europe and the U.S., in fields including technology transfer, drug development, genomics, healthcare services, and aquaculture. With these companies Nuno won major international awards, raised tens of millions of euros/dollars, and in several cases achieved high-multiple transactions. In the meantime, Nuno also helped top-tier research institutes spin out companies and strengthen their ties to the industry. Nuno served as President of P-BIO – Portugal’s Biotechnology Industry Organization from 2011 to 2015 and sat on the board of Health Cluster Portugal from 2008 to 2013. Nuno has had many board, advisory and expert roles internationally, including with Government authorities and top-tier research organizations, and has negotiated and implemented business and scientific collaborations in Europe, the U.S., China, Africa and Latin America. He also took executive courses at the Harvard Business School and other prominent schools. Until recently, Nuno was Chairman of the Investment Committee of 200M, a State-backed fund co-investing with top-tier private funds in Portuguese start ups. Keeping one foot in academia, Nuno worked with the MIT-Portugal Program (2015-18) and is now an invited associate professor at NOVA School of Business and Economics (NOVA-SBE), where he teaches science-based entrepreneurship.
Nuno is based in Paço de Arcos, near Lisbon, where he lives with his wife Sofia and their three children.