Rick Panicucci

Rick is currently the SVP of CMC at QED Therapeutics, Origin Bioscences and Calcilytix Therapeutics all BridgeBio Companies. Prior to joining BridgeBio, Rick served as VP of Pharmaceutical Development Services at WuXi STA, where he provided scientific leadership in formulation development and GMP manufacturing. From 2004 to 2015, Rick was Global Head of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Profiling (CPP) at Novartis. His responsibilities included all small molecule therapeutics across the Novartis portfolio. He also lead and developed novel drug delivery technologies for small molecules and large molecules. Rick has also led R&D groups at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Symbollon Pharmaceuticals, Biogen, and Bausch & Lomb. He received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Toronto and did a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at UCSB.