Vijay Pande

Vijay Pande, Ph.D., served as a Stanford University faculty member for 16 years – notably as the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry, Structural Biology, and Computer Science – where he pioneered the use of computational methods in biology and chemistry. He founded Folding@home, a distributed computing project that helped establish large-scale computation as a practical tool for biological research. Pande subsequently served as a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he founded the firm’s Bio + Health fund. He co-founded VZVC earlier this year to invest in companies leveraging technology to solve humanity’s biggest problems, including healthcare and care access.