SpringWorks Therapeutics, Inc. announced the appointment of Martin Mackay, Ph.D. to the Company?s Board of Directors. Dr. Mackay is a highly accomplished research and development (R&D) executive with more than 30 years of pharmaceutical and biotech R&D experience, including leadership roles at Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Alexion. Dr. Mackay is a co-founder and Executive Chairman of Rallybio, a privately held clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on severe rare diseases that was incorporated in January 2018.

Previously, Dr. Mackay was Executive Vice President, Head of Research and Development at Alexion from 2013 until 2017. Prior to joining Alexion, Dr. Mackay served as President, Research and Development at AstraZeneca from 2010 to 2013, where he led the R&D functions worldwide, including discovery research, clinical development, regulatory affairs, and key related R&D functions. From 1995 to 2009, he held various positions at Pfizer Inc., including Senior Vice President of Worldwide Development, where he was a member of the Executive Leadership Team and led a global organization tasked with advancing a portfolio of investigational medicines across a range of disease areas, and President, Head of Pfizer Pharmatherapeutics, R&D, where he oversaw all aspects of small molecule discovery and development across multiple therapeutic areas.

From 1986 to 1995, Dr. Mackay worked at Ciba-Geigy (now Novartis) in the United Kingdom and Switzerland, and held various positions in academic research prior to that time. Dr. Mackay is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Charles River Laboratories and Novo Nordisk. He received a First-Class Honours Degree in microbiology from Heriot-Watt University and his Ph.D. in molecular genetics from the University of Edinburgh.