MARIANNE DE BACKER, PHD, MBA - Corporate Board Profile

ARROWHEAD PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

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2020-01-28	Dr. De Backer brings over 25 years of experience in healthcare, biotechnology, innovation, strategy, business and corporate development. She has served as member of the Executive Committee, Executive Vice President and Head of Strategy, Business Development and Licensing of Bayer AG (BAYRY) Pharmaceuticals division since 2019. She is also on the board of directors of Gladstone Foundation and Ecohealth Alliance, and on the advisory board of BIOCOM Bay Area and Stanford-Bayer for Digital. From 1991 through 2019 she was at Johnson & Johnson where she most recently held global Business and Corporate Development roles including the position of Vice President of M&A Operations and Divestitures globally for the Pharmaceuticals Group and head of Infectious Diseases & Vaccines Business Development. Prior to that she led a commercial business unit in Europe as well as drug discovery research in both Europe and the United States. Dr. De Backer holds an MBA from Erasmus University Rotterdam, a Master’s degree in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from Vrije Universiteit Brussels, and a Master’s degree in Engineering and a PhD in Biotechnology from Ghent University.
2021-01-28	Dr. De Backer brings over 25 years of experience in healthcare, biotechnology, innovation, strategy, business and corporate development. She has served as member of the Executive Committee, Executive Vice President and Head of Strategy, Business Development and Licensing of Bayer AG (BAYRY) Pharmaceuticals division since 2019. She is also on the board of directors of Gladstone Foundation and as an advisory member on the Stanford-Bayer Digital advisory board. Previously, from 1991 through 2018, she was at Johnson & Johnson where she most recently held global Business and Corporate Development roles including the position of Vice President of M&A Operations and Divestitures globally for the Pharmaceuticals Group and head of Infectious Diseases & Vaccines Business Development. Prior to that she led a commercial business unit in Europe as well as drug discovery research in both Europe and the United States. Dr. De Backer holds an MBA from Erasmus University Rotterdam, a Master’s degree in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from Vrije Universiteit Brussels, and a Master’s degree in Engineering and a PhD in Biotechnology from Ghent University.
2022-01-26	Dr. De Backer brings over 25 years of experience in healthcare, biotechnology, innovation, strategy, business and corporate development. She has served as member of the Executive Committee, Executive Vice President and Head of Strategy, Business Development and Licensing, and Open Innovation of the pharmaceuticals division of Bayer AG (BAYRY) since 2019. She is also on the board of directors of Kronos Bio (NASDAQ: KRON), Gladstone Foundation and as an advisory member on the Stanford-Bayer Digital advisory board. Previously, from 1991 through 2018, she was at Johnson & Johnson where she most recently held global Business and Corporate Development roles including the position of Vice President of M&A Operations and Divestitures globally for the Pharmaceuticals Group and head of Infectious Diseases & Vaccines Business Development. Prior to that she led a commercial business unit in Europe as well as drug discovery research in both Europe and the United States. Dr. De Backer holds an MBA from Erasmus University Rotterdam, a Master’s degree in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from Vrije Universiteit Brussels, and a Master’s degree in Engineering and a PhD in Biotechnology from Ghent University.
2023-01-30	Dr. De Backer holds an MBA from Erasmus University Rotterdam, a Master’s degree in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from Vrije Universiteit Brussels, and a Master’s degree in Engineering and a PhD in Biotechnology from Ghent University.