Portrait of Noubar Afeyan

Rank #2216

Noubar Afeyan

Net worth $1.9B

Biotech · United States

Born
Jul 25, 1962
Age
63
Source
Biotech
Residence
Lexington, Massachusetts
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Married
Children
0
Education
Ph.D, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Bachelor of Science, McGill University

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Noubar Afeyan is the founder and CEO of Cambridge, Mass. life sciences innovation firm Flagship Pioneering.
  • He's also the chairman and cofounder of biotech firm Moderna, known for its Covid-19 vaccine which was authorized by the U.S. FDA in December 2020.
  • Afeyan has helped start more than 70 public and private healthcare and life sciences companies over the course of his career.
  • Born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1962 to Armenian parents, he and his family fled the Lebanese Civil War to move to Montreal in 1975.
  • Beyond his stake in Moderna, he also owns shares in several publicly traded biotech companies in the U.S.
  • Afeyan was a lecturer at Harvard Business School until 2020 and also taught at MIT's Sloan School of Management from 2000 to 2016.
  • In 2014 he helped launch UWC Dilijan, an international boarding school in the town of Dilijan in the mountains of northern Armenia.

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