Jeff Albers

Jeff Albers has more than 15 years of experience bringing important new medicines to patients with cancer and rare diseases in leadership roles in the biopharmaceutical industry. In 2014, he joined Blueprint Medicines as Chief Executive Officer and member of the board of directors and led the research-stage company through an initial public offering. Since that time, Blueprint Medicines has evolved into a leading precision medicine company with a global, fully integrated business, including one FDA-approved therapy and a rapidly advancing pipeline. Jeff previously served as President of Algeta, where he oversaw the successful commercial launch of a targeted cancer therapy prior to the company’s acquisition by Bayer. Prior to Algeta, he held senior commercial and corporate development positions at Genzyme (now a division of Sanofi), most recently as vice president of the U.S. hematology and oncology business unit. Earlier in his career, Jeff was a life sciences corporate attorney at Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo. He currently serves on the board of directors at Magenta Therapeutics and the Eastern New England Chapter of the American Cancer Society and is on the Board of Advisors for Life Sciences Cares. He holds a BS from Indiana University and an MBA and JD from Georgetown University.