
Katherine Bowdish, PhD
CEO & President, PIC Therapeutics, Inc.
Dr. Bowdish joined PIC Therapeutics as its President & CEO in August 2020, bringing more than 20 years of biopharmaceutical business and scientific acumen and leadership to the company. PIC Therapeutics is a pre-clinical company focused on fundamentally changing how we treat cancer by developing a new generation of therapeutics based on the regulation of RNA translation into proteins.
Prior to PIC Therapeutics, Kathy was most recently at Sanofi for a 7-year tenure, where she launched and led Sanofi Sunrise, a venture investment and partnering vehicle to accelerate early stage pioneering science for patient benefit, and later served as Vice President and Head of R&D Strategy.
Prior to her leadership roles at Sanofi, Kathy co-founded or led several early-stage life science companies focused on biological therapies. Kathy’s positions included President & CSO, Permeon Biologics; President & CEO, Anaphore; President, Alexion Antibody Technologies and Senior Vice President, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, and Founder, CEO & CSO, Prolifaron, prior to its acquisition by Alexion.
Kathy currently serves on the PIC Therapeutics Board of Directors and the Adocia Board of Directors [Euronext Paris: ADOC]. Past Board roles include MyoKardia, Warp Drive Bio, Portal Instruments, Thermalin, Permeon Biologics, Anaphore and Prolifaron.
Kathy received her Ph.D. in molecular genetics from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, in the City of New York, and her B.Sc. degree in biology from the College of William and Mary.