Christopher Ghadban currently serves as an Investor at The Venture Collective, where he leads the deeptech investment practice, focusing on life science startups. In addition to his work as an investor, Chris is the Founder of 1bio (One Ecosystem in Bio), a leading global community and content platform supporting bio-innovation that brought together 10,000 people in their first year, 2023. He is also an Entrepreneur-in-Residence with Merck’s Digital Science Studio, and a startup mentor with organizations including Nucleate, MassBio, the NCI SBIR, and more.