Jeff Albers, JD, MBA

Mr. Albers has served as a member of our board of directors since July 2020. Mr. Albers has more than 25 years of experience bringing important new medicines to patients with cancer and rare diseases in leadership roles in the biopharmaceutical industry. He currently serves as the Chair of the board of directors of Blueprint Medicines Corp., or Blueprint, and served as Blueprint’s Executive Chair from April to December 2022 and Chief Executive Officer from July 2014 to August 2022, and as a member of the board of directors since July 2014. During that time, he led the research-stage company through an initial public offering and now to a fully integrated, global biotechnology company. Mr. Albers previously served as President of Algeta ASA from January 2012 to April 2014, where he oversaw the successful commercial launch of a targeted cancer therapy prior to its acquisition by Bayer in April 2014. Prior to Algeta ASA, he held senior commercial and corporate development positions at Genzyme Corporation (now a division of Sanofi) from July 2005 to November 2011, most recently as vice president of the U.S. hematology and oncology business unit. Earlier in his career from 2000 to 2005, Mr. Albers was a life sciences corporate attorney at Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo. He currently serves as the Chair of the board of directors of Spyre Therapeutics, a publicly traded biotechnology company and serves as a member of the board of directors of several privately held companies. He currently serves as a Venture Partner at Atlas Venture and is on the Board of Advisors for Life Sciences Cares. He holds a B.S. from Indiana University and an MBA and J.D. from Georgetown University.