Douglas Treco, Ph.D., currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and has served as the chairman of our board of directors since May 2020. Dr. Treco was Co-Founder, President, and CEO of Ra Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biotechnology company focused on peptide and small molecule inhibitors of the complement pathway. The company was acquired in April 2020 by UCB S.A.. Its lead program, Zilbrysq® , has been approved for the treatment of myasthenia gravis in all major markets. Dr. Treco was CEO of Alchemab Therapeutics from April 2021 to April 2022. Previously, he co-founded Transkaryotic Therapies, Inc. (TKT), which was acquired in 2005 by Shire plc. In his position as Senior Vice President of Research and Development, he established and directed TKT’s gene activation and protein production efforts, which led to the approval of Dynepo™, Replagal®, Elaprase®, and Vpriv®. Dr. Treco is a member of the Board of Directors of CRISPR Therapeutics AG. He is also a scientific advisor to Lightstone Ventures. Dr. Treco was a visiting scientist in the Department of Molecular Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital and a lecturer in genetics at Harvard Medical School from 2004 to 2007. He holds a BA in Biology from the University of Delaware, a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and performed post-doctoral research at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Massachusetts General Hospital.
