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Dr. Jayasuriya is a life science venture capitalist. Dr. Jayasuriya is founding partner of a new life Science fund, an affiliate fund of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, called LifeScience-India, investing in US companies that are leveraged by performing core strategic functions in India. She was previously a partner with Skyline Ventures in Palo Alto, and prior to that with the German US venture capital firm TVM, in San Francisco. Dr. Jayasuriya's expertise consists of a unique combination of business, basic science and medical knowledge. Her prior positions include VP-Corporate Development at Genomics Collaborative Inc., and Vice President, Global Drug Development at Hoffman-La Roche for opportunistic infections in AIDS and Transplantation. Dr. Jayasuriya received a BA from Harvard summa cum laude, and an MD and PhD (in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics) from Harvard Medical School. She interned in Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and received an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School. Dr. Jayasuriya also has a M. Phil. in pharmacology from the University of Cambridge, England. | 