Roger Perlmutter

Roger Perlmutter, M.D., Ph.D., executive vice president and president of Merck Research Laboratories, Merck’s global R&D organization. In this role, he played a key role in the approval and development of the breakthrough immunotherapy treatment Keytruda®. Prior to Merck, Dr. Perlmutter was executive vice president and head of research and development at Amgen, where he was responsible for the registration of ten new drugs in the areas of oncology, endocrinology, hematology, inflammation and osteoporosis, including Sensipar™, Prolia™ and Xgeva™. Previously, Dr. Perlmutter worked at Merck Research Laboratories in roles of increasing responsibility, including as executive vice president of worldwide basic research and preclinical development. Prior to his career in biopharma, Dr. Perlmutter was a professor in the departments of immunology, biochemistry and medicine at the University of Washington, Seattle, and served as chairman of the department of immunology and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Dr. Perlmutter holds a B.A. from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and received his M.D. and Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He pursued his clinical training in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and at the University of California, San Francisco.