Ameena El-Bibany

Ameena El-Bibany is a Principal at ARTIS Ventures with a strong background in early-stage venture capital. She has experience as a Partner at Rising Tide VC, focusing on health and bio investments. Ameena has been involved in successful acquisitions and investments in various companies. She is particularly interested in the convergence of science and technology, with a focus on personalized medicine, synthetic biology, and computational biology. Ameena is dedicated to fostering collaborations between academia and industry for impactful outcomes.

Earlier in her career, Ameena worked at Novozymes in R&D, specializing in bio innovation and industrial scale-up procedures. She has a robust research background, with a focus on DNA damage and repair, microbiome diversity, and stem cell research. Ameena holds a BS in Genetics from the University of California Davis and has received grants from the National Science Foundation for her research work at prestigious institutions like the California Academy of Sciences and the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences.