Bio Details

Richard Mulligan, Ph.D. has served as the Head of SanaX and Executive Vice-Chairman of our Board of Directors since November 2018. Dr. Mulligan is currently the Mallinckrodt Professor of Genetics, Emeritus, at Harvard Medical School, and has been Visiting Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since March 2017. Dr. Mulligan currently serves on the board of directors of Biogen Inc., a public biotechnology company. From 1996-2013, Dr Mulligan served as the Mallinckrodt Professor of Genetics at Harvard and Director of the Harvard Gene Therapy Initiative. Prior to that, he was Professor of Molecular Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. From May 2013 to December 2016, Dr. Mulligan was Founding Partner and Senior Managing Director of Sarissa Capital Management LP, a registered investment advisor, and from March 2017 to October 2018 he served as Portfolio Manager at Icahn Capital LP.