Michel, Foundery Innovation’s CEO, has extensive scientific and executive management experience in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, leading drug development from discovery through the early clinical stage, with a focus on therapies for cancer, chronic viral, autoimmune, and inflammatory diseases. He has over 30 years of leadership, innovation, team-building, collaboration, fundraising, and management experience in biologics and small molecule drug development, and over twenty-five years of experience directing basic and applied research at several companies, including Pionyr Immunotherapeutics, Gilead Sciences, Merck Research Laboratories, Schering-Plough Research Institute (acquired by Merck, Inc), Organon BioSciences (acquired by Schering-Plough), and ImmunoGen Inc., as well as a faculty member for ten years at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. He played key roles in advancing multiple novel and biosimilar biologics into clinical development, including the first FDA approved immunotherapy, IFN-alpha2/IntronA®, and the anti-PD-1 immuno-oncology drug, Keytruda®. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and conducted his postdoctoral training in the Division of Tumor Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.