Denali Therapeutics competitors

Jeff Albers is the chief executive officer of [Blueprint Medicines](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/blueprint-medicines), a company engaged in the discovery and development of highly selective kinase inhibitors for genomically defined cancer subsets. He was previously the president of Algeta. Prior to Algeta, he served at Genzyme, where he spent seven years in senior commercial and corporate development positions. Before joining Genzyme, he spent five years as an Attorney at the law firm Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo. He also has prior experience as a sales representative for Pfizer. Albers holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Indiana University and an MBA from Georgetown University.

J Scott Wolchko are a President/CEO/COO at FATE THERAPEUTICS INC and Board Member at FATE THERAPEUTICS INC. They have worked as Chief Financial Officer at Bocada and VP:Operations/CFO at FATE THERAPEUTICS INC. J studied at University of Virginia and Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society.

Rich has over 20 years of R&D experience involving the immune system and cancer. He has established and operated protein therapeutic efforts in start-up as well as large pharmaceutical companies.

Rachel Elizabeth Haurwitz (born May 20, 1985) is an American biochemist and structural biologist. She is the co-founder, chief executive officer, and president of Caribou Biosciences, a gene editing company.

Hurter joined Vertex in 2004 as Head of Formulation Development, became the Vice President of Pharmaceutical Development in 2006, and is currently the Senior Vice President of Pharmaceutical and Preclinical Sciences. The scope of her responsibilities include Pharmaceutical Development (development of chemical processes for drug substance manufacture as well as drug product formulation and process development, and associated characterization methods for activities from the discovery phase through to validation for commercial manufacturing), DMPK (preclinical drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics) and drug safety evaluation. Prior to joining Vertex, Dr. Hurter was Director of Formulation Development at Merck from 2000 to 2004. Before joining the pharmaceutical industry, Dr. Hurter worked in the paper industry for 8 years where she studied the microstructure of paper and its effects on end use performance. Dr. Hurter has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from MIT, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from West Virginia University and a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa.

Michael Gilman, Ph.D. has served as a member of our board of directors since November 2013. Michael Gilman is currently Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for Arrakis Therapeutics, Inc., a role he has served in since 2016, and Chief Executive Officer and Director for Obsidian Therapeutics, Inc., a role he has served in since 2016. Previously, from 2014 to 2016 Michael Gilman was Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Padlock Therapeutics, Inc. Prior to Padlock, Michael Gilman served as Senior Vice President, Early-Stage Pipeline, at Biogen Idec Inc. from 2012 to 2013. He joined Biogen Idec Inc. in 2012 following its acquisition of Stromedix, Inc., where he was Founder and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to founding Stromedix in 2006, from 1999 to 2005, Michael Gilman served in a variety of capacities, most recently as Executive Vice President, Research at Biogen Idec. From 1994 to 1999, Michael Gilman was at ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc., where he was Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer. From 1986 to 1994, Michael Gilman was on the scientific staff of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. He also serves on the Board of Directors of X4 Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and the Scientific Advisory Board of FutuRx, an Israeli biotech accelerator. Michael Gilman was a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Robert Weinberg at the Whitehead Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from University of California, Berkeley, and an S.B. in Life Sciences from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Simba Gill, PhD is an entrepreneur, investor and CEO who believes passionately that science and globalization will dramatically improve life in the 21st century. Dr. Gill is currently the CEO of Evelo, Sr. Partner at Flagship Ventures, and Executive Chair of Blackfynn. Dr. Gill founded or had lead roles in moksha8, Epirus, Maxygen, Verdia, Avidia, Codexis, Systemix and Valentis, four of these companies have been taken public and three were acquired through strategic trade sales.  Exit valuations were between $400M - $6B.  Dr. Gill has also led, built and launched several commercial businesses/products generating annual revenues of between $150M-$2B. Dr. Gill has founded and/or had lead roles in pioneering companies in the fields of antibodies, stem cells, directed molecular evolution, immunodiagnostics and the cancer microbiome.  He has also been an investor, advisor, founder and CEO of several emerging market life science companies. Dr. Gill was a Partner at TPG, focused on investments in Life Sciences and Emerging Markets. Early in his career, Dr. Gill was co-head of Worldwide Marketing for Recormon. He also led corporate and market development and strategy from inception to commercialization of the Elecsys system, which became one of the world’s most widely used immunodiagnostic platforms. Dr. Gill served on the Board of Directors of the Tuberculosis Alliance, The Djerassi Resident Artists Program and the International Advisory Board of INSEAD. Dr. Gill was also the founder of Dispatches, an in-depth written and photojournalism periodical focused on key global issues. Dr. Gill has an MBA from INSEAD and carried out his PhD with focus on developing humanized antibodies to treat cancer. This work was done at King's College, London in collaboration with the LMB at Cambridge and Celltech.

As a senior executive with 20+ years of sell- and buy- side business and corporate development experience, my career encompasses roles in therapeutics, biotech, genomics, medical devices, and pharmacy benefits. During my tenure at Pfizer, I completed more than 2 dozen acquisition, co-development, and licensing deals ranging from $300M to $7B. Later at Foundation Medicine, I led the $1B sale of their genomics testing to Roche, and earlier played a leadership role in Medco’s $29B sale to Express Scripts. I have worked extensively within R&D environments and launched 3 $1B+ therapeutic products in the hypertension and antibiotics categories. Additionally, I have been the CEO of early stage start-ups, building the funding, commercialization, and exit strategy for therapeutics companies in the CNS and autoimmune disease space.Currently, as CEO of Cognition Therapeutics, I am driving Series C fundraising effort. With multiple phase 2 clinical trials well under way for the Alzheimer’s research and more than a hundred million dollars in dedicated funding, I am repositioning the company to broaden the focus on our science and other CNS clinical conditions. I am pleased to lead a company dedicated to halting neurological disease processes and restoring and preserving the building blocks of brain health and function and look forward to sharing our progress here.