SOMERVILLE, Mass.– Cellarity, a life sciences company founded by Flagship Pioneering to transform the way medicines are created, today announced the appointment of Percy Carter, MBA, Ph.D., as a member of its Board of Directors.
Dr. Carter currently serves as Chief Scientific Officer at Blueprint Medicines and formerly held several leadership roles in the biopharma industry, including Global Head of Discovery Sciences at Janssen Pharmaceuticals (now Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine), and Senior Vice President and Head of Discovery at Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS).
Dr. Carter comes to Cellarity’s Board with a strong track record of shaping and leading drug discovery and platform development. As CSO of Blueprint Medicines, Dr. Carter has advanced a broad research pipeline of innovative therapeutic candidates addressing significant medical needs in allergy/inflammation and oncology/hematology, while leading the expansion of the company’s core scientific platform to encompass targeted protein degradation. During his time at BMS, Dr. Carter led teams that identified and progressed promising drug candidates through discovery into clinical development. His leadership was also instrumental in advancing BMS’s synthetic chemistry and drug discovery strategies, leading to multiple innovations in both discovery platforms and programs.
“I am delighted to join the Board of Directors at Cellarity as the company sets out to challenge the status quo of drug discovery with its unique platform, ultimately bringing value to patients via novel biology and differentiated drug candidates,” said Dr. Carter. “Cellarity’s platform is unique in that it uses advanced computational methods to decode cell behavior, pinpointing novel biological pathways to uncover drug candidates and ultimately develop highly effective therapies.”
“We are thrilled to add Percy to our experienced Board of Directors to help Cellarity’s management team re-write the rules of drug discovery and drive strong value creation in the years to come,” said Stephen Berenson, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cellarity and Managing Partner at Flagship Pioneering.
“Percy will bring a diverse and deep set of experiences and expertise to Cellarity as a drug hunter,” said Fabrice Chouraqui, Pharm.D., CEO of Cellarity and a CEO-Partner at Flagship Pioneering. “I look forward to his insights in leveraging the reproducibility of our platform across disease areas and shaping a pipeline of medicines that matter.”
