Lauren Popov, Ph.D. is an Associate at Westlake BioPartners supporting new investments and portfolio companies. She was previously Senior Director of Translational Biology at Novome Biotechnologies, discovering and developing microbial based medicines for metabolic and inflammatory diseases. Her work advanced programs from pre-clinical through Phase 2 studies. Lauren completed her Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC Berkeley, and she received a Ph.D. from the Stanford University School of Medicine where she studied microbiology and immunology. She received a B.A. in Human Biology from Stanford University.