Landscape of Finance Careers
Monday, June 05, 2023, 5:30 – 6:30 PM CT
From Medicine to Investment Banking: Applying your research training to the financing and selling of businesses. For our final seminar of the year, Rene Mora (UChicago MD/PhD ’89) will join us to share his multi–fold career path through medicine and into investment banking. He will present a high–level overview of what an investment bank does – raising capital for businesses in the form of equity (stock), debt (bonds) and providing advisory services on mergers and acquisitions (both sell–side and buy–side). We’ll look at the process of moving a pharmaceutical product to market and the role of the investment bank during the various stages of this process. Finally, we’ll highlight the potential roles for PhDs in this ecosystem and what value the PhD training brings to this career path.
Rene Mora, PhD
Portfolio Manager, Monashee Investment Management LLC
Dr. Mora is a portfolio manager specializing in the healthcare sector at Monashee Investment Management LLC, a small, privately-held investment management company based in Boston, MA. Dr. Mora joined Monashee in June 2020 after 20 years as chief scientific officer at SVB Leerink (formerly Leerink Swann and Leerink Partners). After medical school, Dr. Mora trained in internal medicine, pulmonology, and critical care medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In 1995, he joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School and the staff of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In 1998, Dr. Mora became director of the medical intensive care unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. During this time, he also began consulting at Leerink Swann (now SVB Leerink), an early stage investment firm focusing on the biomedical sector. In 2000, Dr. Mora became chief scientific officer, a position he held until 2020.
