Themasap Khan, PhD

Dr. Themasap Khan, PhD, is a co-founder and Partner of Luma Group.

Themasap was previously VP at Civilization Ventures, a life sciences and health-tech venture firm. He joined the fund shortly after its inception and helped grow the firm into an early-stage biotech powerhouse, backing companies from Series Seed to IPO. Civilization was often the first-money and the lead investor in early-stage biotech companies. Themasap was involved in helping run the firm’s functions across scientific strategy, operations, and business development, and he co-ran the firm’s pioneering Fellowship program.

Themasap has been an author on multiple scientific publications in Nature, Cell and other scientific journals. His research was focused on cancer biology, neuroscience and genomics – with a combined 10+ years spent in life science research labs.

Themasap received his Ph.D. from Stanford University where he was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and Stanford Graduate Fellow. Themasap earned his BS in Neuroscience from New York University.