Pioneering Medicines Team
Pioneering Medicines is establishing a world-class R&D capability with industry-leading R&D expertise that will advance medicines with speed and steadfast scientific rigor while also providing drug development expertise across the Flagship ecosystem. Our team members have extensive scientific and business experience across the biopharma industry.

Matt Abbinanti
Associate Director, Project Management

Kris Abney
Scientist, In-Vivo Pharmacology, Pioneering Medicines

Antonios Aliprantis
Vice President, Program Leadership, Pioneering Medicines

Ming Bai
Principal Scientist, Head of in vitro Pharmacology, Pioneering Medicines

Paul Biondi
Executive Partner, Flagship Pioneering and President, Pioneering Medicines

Brian Bouchard
Laboratory Operations Manager, Pioneering Medicines

Jennifer DeSaint
Executive Assistant, Pioneering Medicines

Lana Dinic
Director, Project and Portfolio Management, Pioneering Medicines

Brenda Eustace
Vice President, Head of Biology, Pioneering Medicines

Lauge Farnaes
Senior Director, Explorations and Clinical Development, Pioneering Medicines

Krystian Kozek
Associate, Pioneering Medicines

Gang Li
Senior Director, In-Vivo Pharmacology, Pioneering Medicines

Rajib Mukherjee
Senior Scientist, In vitro Pharmacology, Pioneering Medicines

Ayşe Muñiz
Associate, Pioneering Medicines

Vaithianathan “Palani” Palaniappan
Chief Technology Officer, Pioneering Medicines

Ben Parkhurst
CMC Team Lead, Pioneering Medicines

Anand C. Patel
Vice President, Clinical Development & Exploration Leader, Pioneering Medicines

Kathy Phillips
Director, Project Management, Pioneering Medicines

Iulian Pruteanu-Malinici
Director, Bioinformatics, Pioneering Medicines

Sheila Ranganath
Vice President of Program Leadership, Pioneering Medicines

Alec Reynolds
Senior Vice President, Head of Portfolio Strategy & Operations, Pioneering Medicines

Luciano Rossetti
Chief Medical Officer, Flagship and Head of R&D, Pioneering Medicines

Luisa Salter-Cid
Chief Scientific Officer, Pioneering Medicines

Charles Sinclair
Sr. Director of Translational Sciences, Pioneering Medicines

Nick Teceno
Scientist, In Vitro Pharmacology, Pioneering Medicines

Sumana Ullas
Translational Scientist, Pioneering Medicines

Roohi Vinaik
Associate Director, Product Concept Explorations & Clinical Development, Pioneering Medicines