João Incio, MD, PhD

General Partner

João Incio brings over 15 years of multidisciplinary experience in the biomedical sector across the USA, UK, and Portugal to his role as General Partner at Biovance Capital. He trained as a physician at Porto Medical School / Hospital S. João in the foggy, but beautiful city of Porto, and later on as a research fellow at Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital, where he conducted his doctoral research in immuno-oncology. Following his PhD, João worked in medical start-ups, and developed a background in life sciences management consulting and business strategy at L.E.K. Consulting in London. Prior to joining Biovance, João held the positions of Associate Medical Director for Global Strategy at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Principal at Sensyne Health, an Oxford-based life sciences AI company, Sector Lead at ramarketing, an agency proving strategic support to the biopharma outsourcing space, and was a fellow at London-based SR One ($500M biotech VC) under the FutureVC program.