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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