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Noubar Afeyan

United States 63 years old Self-Made

Overview

Source of Wealth
Biotech
Industry
Healthcare
Residence
Lexington, Massachusetts
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D)
McGill University (Bachelor of Science)
Marital Status
Married

Assets

  • Denali Therapeutics
    102,385 shares @ -
    -
    DNLI-US
  • Foghorn Therapeutics
    425,112 shares @ -
    -
    FHTX-US
  • Moderna, Inc.
    2,343,368 shares @ -
    -
    MRNA-US
  • Sana Biotechnology
    6,798,539 shares @ -
    -
    SANA-US
  • Seres Therapeutics Inc (MCRB)
    119,325 shares @ -
    -
    MCRB-US

Biography

Noubar Afeyan is the founder and CEO of Cambridge, Mass. life sciences innovation firm Flagship Pioneering.

He's also the chairman and cofounder of biotech firm Moderna, known for its Covid-19 vaccine which was authorized by the U.S. FDA in December 2020.

Afeyan has helped start more than 70 public and private healthcare and life sciences companies over the course of his career.

Born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1962 to Armenian parents, he and his family fled the Lebanese Civil War to move to Montreal in 1975.

Beyond his stake in Moderna, he also owns shares in several publicly traded biotech companies in the U.S.

About

Afeyan was a lecturer at Harvard Business School until 2020 and also taught at MIT's Sloan School of Management from 2000 to 2016.

In 2014 he helped launch UWC Dilijan, an international boarding school in the town of Dilijan in the mountains of northern Armenia.