World-class leadership team

Management and Board of Directors

Steve Gorlin

Executive Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
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Bert O'Malley, MD

Inventor & Principal Scientist, Board Member
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David Lonard, PhD

Chief Science Officer
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John Thomas

CFO, Treasurer & Corporate Secretary
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Clifford C. Dacso, MD, MPH

Chief Medical Officer & Board Member
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Sang Jun Han, PhD

Director of Laboratory Research
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William Haseltine, PhD

Board Member
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Lee Fleisher, MD

Board Member
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Edward J. Benz

Board Member
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Robert Langer, ScD

Chairman Scientific Advisory Board
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Franklyn Prendergast, MD, PhD

Board Member - emeritus
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Steve Gorlin

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Bet W. O'Malley, MD

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David Lonard, PhD

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John Thomas

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Clifford C. Dacso, MD, MPH

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Sang Jun Han, PhD

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William Haseltine, PhD

  • Dr. William A. Haseltine joined the Board in 2024. Dr. Haseltine has an active career in science, business, and philanthropy. He is known for his pioneering work on cancer, HIV/AIDS, and genomics. He was a professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health and founder of its Division of Biochemical Pharmacology and Division of Human Retrovirology. He has founded twelve biotechnology companies, including Human Genome Sciences, and is the author of several books.
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Lee Fleisher, MD

  • Lee A. Fleisher, MD, ML is Emeritus Professor and Former Chair of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and continues to practice clinically. He is also the Founding Principal and CEO at Rubrum Advising, LLC. He serves as a Senior Advisor of the Bipartisan Policy Center and FasterCures of the Milken Institute, and Visiting Fellow of the Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy. He is a member of the Steering Committee of CHAI (Coalition of Health AI) and a member of the HITAC of the ONC. From July 2020-July 2023, he was the Chief Medical Officer and Director of the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In this capacity, he was responsible for executing all national clinical, quality, and safety standards for healthcare facilities and providers, as well as establishing coverage determinations for items and services that improve health outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries. In 2007, he was elected to membership of the National Academy of Medicine and serves on the Board of Health Services.
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Edward J. Benz

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Robert Langer, ScD

  • Robert Langer is one of 8 Institute Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); being an Institute Professor is the highest honor that can be awarded to a faculty member. He has written over 1,500 articles, which have been cited over 425,000 times; his h-index of 322 is the highest of any engineer in history and the 3rd highest of any individual in any field. His patents have licensed or sublicensed to over 400 companies; he is a cofounder of a number of companies including Moderna. Dr Langer served as Chairman of the FDA’s Science Board (its highest advisory board) from 1999-2002. His over 220 awards include both the United States National Medal of Science and the United States National Medal of Technology and Innovation (he is one of 3 living individuals to have received both these honors), the Charles Stark Draper Prize (often called the Engineering Nobel Prize), Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, Albany Medical Center Prize, Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, Kyoto Prize, Wolf Prize for Chemistry, Millennium Technology Prize, Priestley Medal (highest award of the American Chemical Society), Gairdner Prize, Hoover Medal, Dreyfus Prize in Chemical Sciences, BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biomedicine, Balzan Prize, and the Dr. Paul Janssen Award. He holds 42 honorary doctorates, including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Northwestern, and has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Inventors.
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Franklyn Prendergast, MD, PhD