Richard Mulligan, PhD
Vice Chairman
Richard Mulligan, Ph.D. has served as a member of our Board since November 2018 and as Vice-Chairman since April 2020. Previously, Dr. Mulligan served as a consultant to Sana from November 2018 until joining Sana as an employee in April 2018, where he served in various roles, most recently as Head of Sana Innovation Research, until March 2024. Dr. Mulligan is currently the Mallinckrodt Professor of Genetics, Emeritus, at Harvard Medical School, and served as Visiting Scientist at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from March 2017 to February 2021. From March 2017 to October 2018, Dr. Mulligan served as Portfolio Manager at Icahn Capital LP, an investment management firm, and from May 2013 to December 2016, he served as Founding Partner and Senior Managing Director of Sarissa Capital Management LP, a registered investment advisor. From 1996 to 2013, Dr. Mulligan served as the Mallinckrodt Professor of Genetics at Harvard and Director of the Harvard Gene Therapy Initiative. Prior to that, he served as Professor of Molecular Biology at MIT and a member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. Dr. Mulligan currently serves on the boards of directors of Biogen Inc., a public biotechnology company, and Bausch Health Companies Inc., a public pharmaceutical company. Dr. Mulligan’s honors include the MacArthur Foundation Genius Prize, the Rhodes Memorial Award of the American Association for Cancer Research, the ASMB-Amgen Award, and the Nagai Foundation International Prize. Dr. Mulligan received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the Stanford University School of Medicine and his B.S. from MIT.