Nicholas Haining, BM, BCh

Nicholas Haining, BM, BCh is a Venture Partner at F-Prime based in Boston. Nicholas is also the Chief Scientific Officer and co-founder of Arsenal Biosciences, a cell therapy company based in South San Francisco.

During his time as an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, his lab defined some of the key transcriptional and epigenetic regulators of T cell exhaustion and used in vivo genetic screens to identify immune vulnerabilities of cancer cells in mouse models. Nicholas’ clinical expertise is in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, and he worked on the bone marrow transplant team at Boston Children’s Hospital for nearly twenty years.

More recently, he served as Vice-President, Discovery Oncology and Immunology at Merck Research Laboratories, where he led a multi-site, multidisciplinary team developing innovative approaches to identify therapies for cancer and immune diseases.

Nicholas was elected into the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering.

As a physician-scientist, immunologist and drug developer, Nicholas received his undergraduate and medical degree from Oxford University, UK. He subsequently completed his medical training in Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.