Briggs W. Morrison

Dr. Briggs W. Morrison is the CEO and a Board Director of Syndax Pharmaceuticals, and Executive Partner at MPM Capital. He serves on the boards of several MPM portfolio companies and is an investment committee member of MPM’s impact collaboration with global financial services firm UBS, that is a public/private crossover vehicle managed by MPM.

Prior to joining Syndax and MPM, Briggs served as Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President for Global Medicines Development at AstraZeneca. His career also includes distinguished roles at Pfizer and Merck. As Head of Global Medicines Development at AstraZeneca, he oversaw all clinical development functions and late-stage clinical development projects. As Head of Clinical Development at Pfizer, he oversaw Phase 1-3 development and operations for all therapeutic areas before being appointed the Head of Development, Medical Affairs, Safety and Regulatory Affairs for all Pfizer human health businesses. Briggs has overseen the development of numerous biopharmaceutical products in multiple therapeutic areas. He was also the former Chairman of Transcelerate BioPharma, an industry-funded company charged with improving aspects of clinical trials.

Briggs earned his M.D. from the University of Connecticut and completed his training in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and in Medical Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He also completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and additional post-doctoral work at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He received his B.S. in Biology from Georgetown University.