Behzad Aghazadeh

Behzad has 25 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, with 15 years of experience as an institutional investor. He began his career in healthcare as a research scientist, later joining Booz Allen as a management consultant, where he led major strategic and operational initiatives for companies in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Behzad served as the Chairman of Immunomedics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing targeted therapies for the treatment of cancers and other diseases with high unmet medical need, until the company’s $21B acquisition by Gilead in 2020. Behzad currently serves on the board of Scribe Therapeutics, Inc., a private molecular engineering company developing advanced technologies for CRISPR-based genetic medicine, as well as the board of Aadi Bioscience, a biopharmaceutical company focusing on precision therapies for genetically-defined mTOR pathway genes. Behzad received his Master’s degree in Physics from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (Munich, Germany) and a PhD from Cornell University in Biochemistry & Biophysics.