Joseph Edelman

Joseph Edelman has served on our board of directors since May 2020. Mr. Edelman is founder, chief executive officer, and portfolio manager of Perceptive Advisors. Prior to founding Perceptive Advisors, Mr. Edelman was a senior analyst at Aries Fund, a Paramount Capital Asset Management biotechnology hedge fund, from 1994 through 1998. Prior to that position, Mr. Edelman was a senior biotechnology analyst at Prudential Securities from 1990 to 1994. Mr. Edelman started his career in the healthcare sector of the securities industry as a biotechnology analyst at Labe, Simpson from 1987 to 1990.

Mr. Edelman earned an M.B.A. from New York University in 1986 and a B.A., magna cum laude, in psychology from the University of California San Diego in 1980.