Bruce Car, Ph.D.

Chief Scientific Officer at Biohaven

Speaker

Dr. Car joined Biohaven on August 1, 2022 as Chief Scientific Officer, having served since January 2020 as CSO of Agios Pharmaceuticals working in oncology and rare diseases. Prior to Agios, Bruce spent 25 years at Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) and its legacy companies, working across all therapeutic areas and drug modalities. For more than two decades, he held roles of increasing responsibility in drug discovery, covering all therapeutic areas, drug platforms and different stages of discovery. In early 2017, he became the first head of the BMS Translational Medicine function . During his tenure with BMS, Dr. Car contributed to progressing approximately 250 internally discovered drug candidates and over 18 drug registrations. Dr. Car left BMS as the interim head of Drug Discovery. Dr. Car received a degree in Veterinary Medicine from The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (’83), and his Ph.D (’89). from Cornell University, NY, USA. He holds specialty certifications in anatomic and clinical pathology. Dr. Car undertook his postdoctoral studies in immunology and inflammation at the Theodor Kocher Institute, University of Berne and ETH/University of Zurich in Switzerland.