David Chao

Chief Administrative Officer at Centessa Pharmaceuticals

David Chao, Ph.D., is Chief Administrative Officer of Centessa Pharmaceuticals. Most recently, Dave held the roles of President and Chief Executive Officer of Stowers Institute for Medical Research and President and Chief Executive Officer of BioMed Valley Discoveries.

Dave was also the President at The Graduate School of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research from 2010-2018 and a member of the Board of Directors for the American Century Companies from 2012-2020.

Earlier in his career, Dave was Head of Strategic Alliances Global Operations at the Novartis Institutes of BioMedical Research and a consultant in McKinsey & Company’s Pharmaceutical and Medical Product Practice.

Dave holds a Ph.D. in Biology from M.I.T. and a combined A.M. and A.B. in Biology from Harvard University.

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Centessa Pharmaceuticals

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Centessa Pharmaceuticals Limited is a next-generation biopharmaceutical company that aims to reshape the traditional drug development process. The company applies an asset-centric R&D model at scale to advance a portfolio of highly validated programs led by industry leading teams. Each program is developed by an Centessa Subsidiary and supported by a centralized infrastructure and the Centessa management team.