Kollol Pal

Dr. Kollol Pal is an established serial entrepreneur with more than two decades of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Kollol has spent much of his career within successful, early-stage companies where he held roles of increasing responsibility. Most recently, Kollol was the Founder and CEO of Mnemosyne Pharmaceuticals (now known as Cadent Therapeutics), a neuroscience drug discovery company which partnered with Novartis in 2014. Prior to his work with Mnemosyne, he was Co-Founder and SVP of Research and Development at Corbus Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: CRBP), a clinical-stage company developing novel drugs for scleroderma and cystic fibrosis. Earlier in his career, Kollol served as Vice President of Chemistry at Neogenesis, a novel screening and chemistry technologies company acquired by Schering Plough-Merck, and as Director of Chemistry at the oncology startup Mitotix which was later acquired by GPC Biotech. He has also previously served as a Principal at PureTech Ventures (now PureTech Health). Kollol began his scientific career at Boehringer Ingelheim, where he was a member of the research team that developed Viramune, the first non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor for the treatment of HIV/AIDS.