Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that Pushkal Garg, M.D., has been appointed Executive Vice President, Chief Research and Development Officer to oversee an integrated R&D organization. Building on the launch of AMVUTTRA® in transthyretin amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM), Alnylam is entering a new phase of growth, and a combined R&D organization will accelerate pipeline progress by fostering earlier collaboration, faster decision-making, and more agile responses to both scientific opportunity and patient need. Dr. Garg joined Alnylam in 2014 to build and lead the Company?s Development group.
He previously held leadership roles at Bristol-Myers Squibb and Millennium Pharmaceuticals. He received a B.A. with high honors in Biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He completed residency training in Internal Medicine at UCSF, was a fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Johns Hopkins University, and served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and the Brigham & Women?s Hospital in Boston prior to joining the industry.
