Richard Peters

Biography

Richard Peters, M.D., Ph.D. has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer and Director of Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, Inc. since February 2017. Dr. Peters previously served as Senior Vice President and Head of Global Rare Diseases at Sanofi Genzyme, where he was responsible for a global, $3 billion per year business with 10 commercialized products and a multi-product development pipeline focused on several therapeutic areas. He also served as Head of Japan and Asia Pacific for Specialty Care (Oncology, Rare Diseases, Immunology, and Multiple Sclerosis) at Sanofi Genzyme. He is an expert in the field of Oncology, having previously served as Division Medical Officer at Sanofi Oncology, and is the former Head of Global and US Medical Affairs at Genzyme Transplant/Oncology. He has also served as a Senior Director at Onyx Pharmaceuticals, as a Director at Amgen, and as Chief Executive Officer of Mednav, a venture capital-backed healthcare information technology start-up. Dr. Peters began his medical training at the Université Catholique de Louvain in Brussels, Belgium. After immigrating to the US, he earned his MD and PhD in Pharmacology from the Medical University of South Carolina and completed postgraduate training at Massachusetts General Hospital and held a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellowship at Harvard Medical School. He has also served as a consulting editor for JAMA and a contributing editor for Science and has authored over 120 research articles and editorials. Dr. Peters is also an active founder and angel biotech investor in start-up biopharmaceutical companies.

Research Interest

Informatics