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Petra Kaufmann

Executive Officer at Affinia Therapeutics

Bethesda, Maryland, United States

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Experience

  1. Ovid TherapeuticsChief Medical Officercurrent2025 — presentNew York, NY
  2. Vigil NeuroscienceChief Medical Officer2024 — 2025Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
  3. Affinia TherapeuticsChief Medical Officer2021 — 2024
  4. Novartis Gene TherapiesSenior Vice President, Clinical Development, Analytics & Translational Medicine2020 — 2021Bethesda, Maryland, United States
  5. AveXis, Inc.Vice President, R&D Translational Medicine2018 — 2020
  6. The National Institutes of Health/National Center for Advancing Translational SciencesDirector, Office of Rare Diseases Research2015 — 2018
  7. The National Institutes of HealthDirector, Division of Clinical Innovation2014 — 2017
  8. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)Director, Office of Clinical Research2009 — 2014
  9. Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNeurology Faculty (with tenure)2000 — 2009

Skills & more

ManagementLeadershipStrategic PlanningResearch AdministrationNeurology

Languages English · French · German

  • Preparing to be a Corporate Director — Harvard Business School Executive Education

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Who is Petra Kaufmann?
Executive Officer at Affinia Therapeutics
Where did Petra Kaufmann go to school?
Petra Kaufmann studied at Columbia University (Master of Science, Biostatistics/Patient-oriented Research); Columbia University (Neurology Residency Program); Columbia University (Post-doctoral Fellowship, Mitochondrial diseases, molecular genetics).

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