Kevin Fitzgerald

Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald joined Alnylam in 2005 as Associate Director of Research and has served in roles of increasing responsibility and leadership since that time. Kevin was promoted to Chief Scientific Officer of Alnylam in May of 2019; he is also Executive Vice President and Head of Research at Alnylam and has 24 years of drug discovery experience.

His achievements at Alnylam include leadership of the company’s RNAi delivery efforts, resulting in two clinically validated modes of siRNA delivery, and the development of Alnylam’s RNAi therapeutic novel class of medicines. He is an inventor on over 50 patents including the majority of Alnylam’s marketed and pipeline programs, as well as an author of over 50 papers including many in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell, and New England Journal of Medicine. He has led multiple programs — including Alnylam’s inclisiran program — from discovery through pre-clinical development, regulatory submissions, and early clinical development. Prior to 2005, Kevin was at Bristol-Myers Squibb for 7 years.

Kevin received his Bachelor of Science in genetics from Cornell University and his doctorate in molecular biology from Princeton University/Columbia Medical School. He completed his post-doctoral fellowship in oncology at Harvard Medical School. Kevin also serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of Generation Bio and is an independent board Director for Ovid Therapeutics.