Heather Preston

Biography

Heather Preston is Managing Director at TPG Biotech. Prior to joining TPG Biotech in 2005, Dr. Preston worked in investment banking at JP Morgan Partners, served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence with New Enterprise Associates, and was a leader of the pharmaceutical and medical products consulting practice at McKinsey & Co. She has an undergraduate degree in biochemistry from the University of London, a medical degree from the University of Oxford, and a post-doctoral fellowship in molecular biology at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University. She completed her training in Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and then sub-specialized in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at University of California, San Francisco. During her academic career, Dr. Preston was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, a Fulbright Cancer Research Scholarship, a Harlech Scholarship and a Science and Engineering Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship Award. In addition to Albireo, Dr. Preston serves on the Board of Directors of Alder Biotherapeutics (NASDAQ: ALDR) and numerous private companies.

Research Interest

Gastroenterology and Hepatology