James N. Topper, M.D., Ph.D.
Chairman of AnaptysBio Managing General Partner at Frazier Healthcare
Jamie Topper, M.D., Ph.D., is a Managing General Partner of Frazier Healthcare Partner’s Life Sciences team. He joined Frazier in 2003 and opened Frazier’s Menlo Park office in the same year. Throughout his 11 years as a General Partner, Dr. Topper has invested across over 20 companies encompassing a broad spectrum of Life Science and Biopharmaceutical companies. Dr. Topper has led and served as a board member for many of Frazier’s successful life sciences investments, including Acerta Pharma BV (sold to AstraZeneca), Calistoga Pharmaceuticals (co-founder, sold to Gilead), Rempex (sold to The Medicines Company), Incline (co-founder, sold to The Medicines Company), Alnara (sold to Lilly), Portola (co-founder, NASDAQ: PTLA), Cotherix (sold to Actelion), and Threshold (NASDAQ: THLD). He currently represents Frazier on the boards of Allena Pharmaceuticals, Alpine Immune Sciences, AnaptysBio, Aptinyx, Entasis Therapeutics, Mavupharma, and Amunix Therapeutics. He is also a board observer for Alcresta Therapeutics and Sojournix. Prior to joining Frazier, Dr. Topper served as head of the cardiovascular research and development franchise at Millennium Pharmaceuticals and ran Millennium San Francisco (formerly COR Therapeutics). Before the merger of COR and Millennium, he served as the Vice President of Biology at COR and was responsible for all research activities. He served on the faculties of Stanford Medical School and Harvard Medical School prior to joining COR. Dr. Topper received his M.D. and Ph.D. in Biophysics from Stanford University School of Medicine and holds a B.S. from the University of Michigan. He did his postgraduate training in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and is board certified in both disciplines. He has authored over 50 publications and was the recipient of a Howard Hughes Scholars Award while on the faculty at Stanford University. In 2011 and 2016, Jamie was named to the Midas List of leading venture capitalists, and in 2013 was recognized by Forbes as one of the top 10 healthcare investors.