Marie A. Lindner

Marie Lindner, MD worked in executive roles in the pharmaceutical, biotech, venture capital, start-up, and Medtech companies with experience across therapeutic areas and modalities and between business and clinical development over 30 years. She was most recently recruited to start a team at Novartis Pharmaceuticals, focused on finding new trends in science and medicine. Dr. Lindner now retired, maintains several consultancies/boards.

Before Novartis, Marie led gastroenterology licensing at the Shire, after five years as a Venture Partner at BioAdvance, a startup biotech VC group, serving on 8 startup boards. Previously she worked in business/clinical development at five other medium/large biotech/pharma companies and co-founded two startups.

Dr. Lindner was board certified in internal medicine and clinical nutrition, did a general surgery residency and fellowship in atherosclerosis/lipid metabolism. She was a faculty member at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.