Flagship Pioneering Expands Leadership Team with Key Appointments and Promotions
"Lovisa has showcased her exemplary leadership, vision, and commitment to pioneering original science, as evidenced by her instrumental role in the creation and scaling-up of Alltrna, Apriori Bio, Metaphore Biotechnologies, and Prologue Medicines," said
"In just four years since he joined Flagship, Paul has transformed then nascent Pioneering Medicines into an innovation powerhouse, where thanks to his vision and leadership, we boast an R&D unit full of experts who bring an array of drug research, design and development capabilities to our organization," said Afeyan. "The strategic partnerships he has established signify not just a tremendous opportunity for patient impact and value creation, but represent a new, innovation supply chain model for collaborations within the broader biopharma ecosystem. Beyond this, Paul has provided instrumental leadership in various capacities across Flagship and has positively impacted our growth trajectory."
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Gary Pisano, Ph.D., a long-time contributor to Flagship and for the last year an academic partner while on sabbatical from
"We have long valued Gary's insight and strategy at Flagship, and we are pleased to welcome him as our Chief Strategist," added Afeyan. "Gary's counsel and singular understanding of the Flagship model will allow him to tackle the broad strategic and business choices facing Flagship with a focus on operating effectively and efficiently at scale. A key part of his role will be helping us leverage the company's nearly 25 years of experience, and ensuring that Flagship operates on the leading edge of management, strategy, and leadership practice."
Enhancing Flagship's Leadership Team
Flagship further enhanced its leadership team with the following executive appointments and elevations:
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Junaid Bajwa , M.D., will join Flagship in early September as Senior Partner and Head ofUnited Kingdom , and Science Partner for Pioneering Intelligence. He will focus on advancing new strategic opportunities and partnerships in the region for Flagship and its companies. Bajwa will join Flagship fromMicrosoft Research where he has been serving as Chief Medical Scientist focusing on how trusted, reliable, and human-centered AI can transform the practice of medicine. He will bring over two decades of experience across primary care, secondary care, and public health settings, and has worked as a payer and policymaker in theUK , specializing in informatics, digital transformation, and leadership. - David Khougazian was recently promoted to Executive Partner, Growth and Head of Global Engagement. David brings more than 25 years of leadership experience in the global healthcare industry including over two decades at Sanofi.
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Justine Levin-Allerhand , Ph.D., was recently promoted to Executive Partner, Origination and Corporate Development to maximize the effectiveness of Flagship's origination teams, thereby fueling its ecosystem with exceptional company generation and novel, durable scientific platforms. -
Mark Stevenson joined Flagship as Senior Partner. In this role, he will help advance Flagship's new Enabling Technologies Initiative (ETI) and focus on driving our external partnerships. Mark brings over 30 years in the life science industry to this role, including as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Thermo Fisher. - Flagship has also expanded its rank of origination partners through the promotions of
Kyle Chiang ,Molly Gibson ,Scott Lipnick ,Armen Mkrtchyan , andJacob Rubens .
"Flagship is dedicated to hiring and nurturing world-class executives with a history of extraordinary performance, and with these additions to our already robust leadership team, I believe we are in the strongest place we've been in our nearly 25-year history," added Afeyan. "We are pleased to congratulate our colleagues on their new and expanded leadership roles. We look forward to their collaboration as we build on our mission to invent transformative technologies and companies that improve human health and the sustainability of our planet."
About Flagship Pioneering
Flagship Pioneering invents and builds bioplatform companies, each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health or sustainability. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has originated and fostered more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in more than
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