Risa Shapiro is an Executive Director and Head of Alliance Management for Platform and Early R&D strategic partnerships at Novartis. Her team launches and manages joint discovery, preclinical and clinical alliances across a diverse range of therapeutic areas. Risa brings 20 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, leveraging prior alliance, project and portfolio management roles in Novartis’ Oncology unit and at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. Risa earned a B.S. in Biological Sciences and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Cornell University.