# Jeffrey Bluestone

> Jeffrey Bluestone is a funding round investor at Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy backing Health Care. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio and…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/parker-institute-for-cancer-immunotherapy)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Sep 2017
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-bluestone-4399553
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/kickassscience1
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jeffrey.bluestone

Jeffrey Bluestone is a funding round investor at Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy in San Francisco focused on Health Care and Biotechnology. Jeffrey Bluestone, PhD is CEO and President, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and the A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor at UCSF. A leading researcher in immune tolerance and T-cell activation, he has developed multiple immunotherapies including the first FDA-approved drug targeting T-cell co-stimulation in autoimmunedisease and organ transplantation, and CTLA-4 antagonist drugs approved to treat metastatic melanoma. As an academic leader on a national and international scale he was founding director of the Immune Tolerance Network, the largest NIH-funded multicenter clinical immunology research program testing novel immunotherapies in transplantation, autoimmunity, and asthma/allergy. As former UCSF Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and former Director of the UCSF Diabetes Center, he has authored over 400 peer-reviewed publications and received numerous awards including election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine and as member of Vice President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot Blue Ribbon Panel.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 1 | 100% |
| Biotechnology | 1 | 100% |
| Clinical Trials | 1 | 100% |
| Health Diagnostics | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ImaginAb | ImaginAb is a biotechnology company focused on developing a new class of highly targeted diagnostic imaging agents based on engineered antibody fragments. ImaginAb's platform technology enables the rapid engineering of antibodies into fragments that retain the parental antibody but are immunologically passive and kinetically-optimized forclinical imaging. This combination of superior specificity and kinetics enables ImaginAb to generate agents that can address the unmet needs in diagnosis and patient selection for therapeutics. | $8M |  | Sep 14, 2017 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Adage Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adage-capital-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cycad Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cycad-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Nextech Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nextech-invest) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

The Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy brings together the best scientists, clinicians, and industry partners. The company strives to build a smarter and more coordinated cancer immunotherapy research effort to save lives.

5 contacts available at Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jeffrey Bluestone | President & CEO | — |
| Sean Parker | Founder and Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sean-parker |
| Charles Michael Yim | Donor | — |
| Crystal Mackall | Director, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at Stanford | — |
| Crystal Mackall | Director, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at Stanford | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Jeffrey Bluestone invest in?

Jeffrey Bluestone invests primarily in Health Care, Biotechnology and Clinical Trials startups, most often at Funding Round stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Jeffrey Bluestone last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jeffrey Bluestone closed in Sep 2017. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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