Grant Blouse

Grant Blouse has served as Senior Vice President of Translational Research at Catalyst since January 2020 and as Vice President Translational Research since July 2018. Previously, Dr. Blouse was Principle Scientist and Project Manager at Novo Nordisk A/S, Haemophilia Enzymology, where he led early and late stage hemophilia projects and drove the strategic evaluation of new therapeutic areas in the rare disease space. Prior to Novo Nordisk, Dr. Blouse was a Senior Scientist at Catalyst Biosciences where he helped build Catalyst’s next-generation hemophilia franchise, including identification of Catalyst’s Factor VIIa clinical candidate, marzeptacog alfa (activated) and co-inventing its Factor IX clinical candidate, dalcinonacog alfa. Dr. Blouse has held research and investigator positions at Aarhus University’s Department of Molecular Biology, Henry Ford Health System’s Division of Biochemical Research and Wayne State University School of Medicine’s Department of Pharmacology.

Dr. Blouse has authored more than 50 peer reviewed papers and abstracts and delivered more than a dozen invited talks in the biochemistry and hematology spaces.

Dr. Blouse earned his B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Delaware, his M.Sc. in Biochemistry from Clemson University and his Ph.D. in Pharmacology from Wayne State University School of Medicine.