Dr. Mathai Mammen
Senior Advisor
Mathai Mammen, M.D., Ph.D., is a Senior Advisor at General Atlantic. In his role, Dr. Mammen provides strategic counsel and advises the firm’s Life Sciences investment team and portfolio companies.
Dr. Mammen brings more than 25 years of leadership experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, focusing on drug discovery, development and scaling of small and large businesses. He currently serves as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Parabilis Medicines, a biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of drugs to address the limitations of today’s precision medicines and achieve universal druggability.
Before assuming his role at Parabilis Medicines in 2023, Dr. Mammen had a critical role in leading Johnson & Johnson’s expansion in COVID vaccines as Executive Vice President of Pharmaceuticals, R&D, and also served on the Executive Committee. He is also credited for spearheading initiatives and strategies at Janssen’s R&D that propelled the company to global recognition as one of the largest R&D organizations and one of the leading pharmaceutical companies in the world. Dr. Mammen held previous R&D roles at Merck, Inc. and Theravance, a company he co-founded in 1997 following his studies and research at Harvard University.
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