David Katz

Prior to founding Sparrow, David was a pharmaceutical R&D leader at Abbott and AbbVie, where he led clinical development and drug discovery teams, and was a personalized medicine pioneer. David is dedicated to mentorship of the next generation of life sciences entrepreneurs, currently as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Oregon Health & Science University. He held post-doctoral fellowships in immunology at Universities of Chicago and Michigan, earned MPhil and PhD degrees in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University, and is an alumnus of Pomona College (BA, Chemistry).

David has published over 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers. In his copious spare time, he is actively involved in new play development and is a glass artist.