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Robert Duggan

Net worth $12.4B

Pharmaceuticals · United States

Born
Apr 28, 1944
Age
82
Source
Pharmaceuticals
Residence
Clearwater, Florida
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Married
Children
8
Education
Drop Out, University of California, Los Angeles; Drop Out, University of California, Santa Barbara

Net worth over time

Biography

  • In 2020, Robert Duggan invested $63 million in Nasdaq-listed Summit Therapeutics and became its Co-CEO, leading the biotech in developing targeted oncology therapies for difficult diagnoses.
  • Pharmacyclics' cancer drug Imbruvica made Duggan a billionaire in 2013 and paved the way for the company's $21 billion sale to AbbVie in 2015.
  • Duggan, whose son died from brain cancer, became passionate about Pharmacyclic's cancer fighting drugs and first invested in 2004.
  • His enthusiasm for investing began four decades earlier in a corporate finance class he took at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
  • In 2020, Duggan bought $63 million of shares in Nasdaq-listed Summit Therapeutics, a small biotech company, and became its CEO.
  • Duggan also sits on the board of Pulse Biosciences, of which he is the largest individual shareholder.
  • Duggan is a big donor to the Church of Scientology, of which he is a member; he says he's given the church nearly $360 million over his lifetime.
  • Duggan enjoys surfing in his spare time.

Financial assets

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