Dr. Vlad Hogenhuis, MD, is President and CEO of Chimera Bio, a biotech company based in San Francisco developing novel cell therapies for cancer. He recently served as Chief Operating Officer of Ultragenyx with responsibilities for global commercial operations, business development, and manufacturing. Before that, Dr. Hogenhuis served as Senior Vice President and Global Franchise Head, Specialty Pharmaceuticals of GlaxoSmithKline Plc. from 2012 to 2018, overseeing Oncology and Immunology. From 1994 to 2012, he served in leadership positions at Merck & Co in the US, China, and Europe, where he was responsible for managing the P&L of specialty and cardiovascular care medicines. He also served as an NIH Fellow at New England Medical Centre in Boston, and as a Naval Lieutenant Surgeon in the Royal Dutch Navy.

Dr. Hogenhuis currently serves on the boards of Rezolute Bio, a public biotech company (RZLT- Nasdaq) specializing in metabolic diseases, and IHP Therapeutics, a private company in San Francisco developing novel therapies for hemtological disorders. He previously served as a member of the Board of Directors of Vision 2020, a program of the World Health Organization for the prevention of blindness. Dr. Hogenhuis received an M.D. degree in Medicine Cum Laude from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. He received an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business at The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.