Prior to joining Disarm Therapeutics he was Chief Scientific Officer of Padlock Therapeutics until its acquisition by BMS in March 2016. Raj previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Euclises Pharmaceuticals and Senior Vice President of Deciphera Pharmaceuticals. Before that time, he was Senior Vice President of Jubilant Drug Discovery & Development and held positions of increasing leadership responsibility with Pfizer Global R&D and legacy Pharmacia and Searle companies. He has led discovery & early clinical development teams that have advanced multiple candidates into clinical trials for refractory cancers, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetic nephropathy, COPD, and pain. Raj has BS in Pharmacy and received his PhD in Medicinal Chemistry from Duquesne University.

Prior to Selecta, Peter was Vice President, Head of Mergers & Acquisitions and Alliance Management at Solvay Pharmaceuticals, where he negotiated license and acquisition agreements in various therapeutic areas such as vaccines, neurology and cardiology. He was the lead negotiator for the $1.5 billion fenofibrate alliance between Solvay Pharmaceuticals and Abbott Laboratories and was instrumental in the $6.2 billion acquisition of Solvay Pharmaceuticals by Abbott Laboratories. Peter was then appointed by Abbott to lead the post-merger integration resulting in the spin-out of what became AbbVie.

Earlier in his career, he spent nearly a decade as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and Simon Kucher & Partners. Peter received his MSc. in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany.

Prior to joining Disarm, Robert was a Senior Associate Director and Senior Research Fellow at Boehringer-Ingelheim and prior to that a Senior Principal Scientist at Pfizer. Robert has contributed to the delivery of two novel drug candidates into clinical-proof-of concept trials and to the identification and development of >15 clinical candidates across multiple therapeutic areas.  He is the author of over 45 patents and peer-reviewed publications.

He earned his PhD in synthetic organic chemistry under the guidance of Professor K.C. Nicolaou at the Scripps Research Institute and a BS in chemistry and mathematics from the University of Arizona.

Jeff’s research laboratory uses genomic and metabolic approaches to understand the process by which unhealthy or injured axons degenerate, an early pathologic event that underlies most neurodegenerative diseases and peripheral neuropathies. His lab has made major discoveries including identification and characterization of the GDNF neurotrophic factor family whose members are being developed into treatments for neurological disorders, and the molecular link between metabolism, NAD and axon health. He holds over 25 patents on neurotrophic factors, axonal protective agents, and their use in treating neurological disorders.

Jeff graduated from Washington University Medical School (WUSM, MD, 1978) and the University of Virginia (UVA, PhD, 1983). He completed his residency in Pathology at UVA and joined the Departments of Pathology and Medicine at WUSM in 1983. He became the David Clayson Professor of Neurology in 2005 and the Head of the Department of Genetics in 2009. Under his leadership, the Department is focusing on disease-based genetic research and helping WUSM become an international leader in Precision Medicine and Genome Engineering.

Robert received his doctorate in chemistry from Princeton University and did postdoctoral studies as the Chaim Weizmann Fellow at the California Institute of Technology. He has contributed to drug discovery and development efforts leading to 18 investigational new drugs entering human clinical trials. These include the cancer drugs foretinib, afuresertib, pinometostat, tazemetostat, Tafinlar (dabrafenib) and Mekinist (trametinib) and the antibiotic Altabax (retapamulin). Robert has contributed more than 200 publications to the scientific literature, holds 14 issued U.S. patents and has authored 5 books in the areas of protein science and enzymology. His most recent book, Evaluation of Enzyme Inhibitors in Drug Discovery: A Guide for Medicinal Chemists and Pharmacologists, 2nd Edition (Wiley, Hoboken, NJ), published in March 2013. In 2016 Robert was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).