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Carlos Garcia-Echeverria

Non-Executive Director

About Carlos

Dr Carlos Garcia-Echeverria is an accomplished drug discovery scientist and pharma executive, focused on bringing new and effective therapies to patients in need. 

Carlos has provided scientific leadership to drug discovery and early clinical development teams across different modalities and diseases most recently at EQRx as chief of Rx Creation, Sanofi as chief operating officer of Research and Novartis as executive director, Oncology Drug Discovery Head. Carlos also has broad experience in managing research partnerships with biotech companies and academic institutions. His research accomplishments are documented by 190 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and review papers, 45 granted patents and over 40 IND filings. 

Carlos holds a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Barcelona and received the Leonidas Zerwas Award from the European Peptide Society in recognition of his outstanding contributions to peptide science. Carlos is a member of the scientific advisory boards of several biotech companies in Europe, USA and China.