Alex Szidon, PhD
Founder & President
Monticola
Alex is the Founder and President of Monticola LLC. Prior to Monticola, Alex was the Chief Business Officer for National Resilience, VP and Head of Pharma Partnering at Genentech and held multiple BD leadership roles at Merck (MSD) and Novartis. In all of these roles, Alex built teams and organizations to access innovation and transact across all therapeutic areas, technology platforms, and treatment modalities with significant transactions in therapeutics, diagnostics, digital, and vaccine health spaces. Earlier in his career, Alex founded Zafgen and was on the Founding team of Dara Biosciences. Alex worked as a Venture Partner at GreatPoint Ventures and as Director of Business Development at Harvard Medical School. As a management consultant at L.E.K. Alex earned a Ph.D in Biochemistry & Cell Biology from UCSF and was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University. Alex continues to be active as an entrepreneur in the neurodegeneration space.
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