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Muzammil Mansuri, Ph.D.

Venture Partner

About

Muz Mansuri joined F-Prime Capital in January 2020 as a Venture Partner and is based in the Boston office. Muz will be working with various F-Prime team members to evaluate therapeutic and digital investment and company creation opportunities. Muz has more than 35 years of experience in various R&D roles as a senior executive within the global biopharmaceutical industry.

Prior to joining F-Prime, Muz was a member of the Executive Committee at Sanofi, as Executive Vice President, Strategy, Business Development, and Licensing.  Among other responsibilities, Muz headed the Strategy, Business Development, Alliance Management and the Venture Group for Sanofi.  Before this, he was at Gilead Sciences as Senior Vice President, Research and Development Strategy and Business Development.  In that capacity he led the R&D Strategy, Business Development, and M&A activities for the company.  Muz has served as Chief Executive Officer of several biotech companies and as a General Partner at Flagship Ventures (now Flagship Pioneering).  He began his career in the pharmaceutical industry as a bench medicinal chemist with Bristol Myers.

Muz received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University College London. He conducted postdoctoral research at UCLA and Columbia University.

 

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