Jason Gardner is the CEO of Ampersand Biomedicines and a CEO-Partner at Flagship Pioneering, where he leads a Boston-area biotech programming biologic medicines that act only at the site of disease. A Cambridge- and Oxford-trained scientist turned operator, he previously co-founded and ran Magenta Therapeutics through its IPO and spent years building GSK's Regenerative Medicine Unit. He is betting that the next generation of drugs will not just be potent but precise - going exactly where they are needed and nowhere else.
Lisa M. Olson, Ph.D., is a biopharmaceutical research leader who became CEO of Milan-based clinical-stage biotech Enthera Pharmaceuticals in January 2024, after years on its board and as chair of its Scientific Advisory Board. Across two decades in immunology drug discovery - 15 years at AbbVie/Abbott where she helped advance 15 molecules into the clinic including Rinvoq, plus roles at Pfizer and as Chief Scientific Officer of Magenta Therapeutics - she has built a career turning biology into medicine. At Enthera she is steering the clinical development of Ent001, a first-in-class antibody targeting the IGFBP3/TMEM219 pathway for inflammatory bowel disease and type 1 diabetes.