Rank #3355
Timothy Springer
Net worth $1.0B
Biotech · United States
- Born
- Feb 23, 1948
- Age
- 78
- Source
- Biotech
- Residence
- Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Ph.D, Harvard University; Bachelor of Science, University of California, Berkeley
Net worth over time
Biography
- Timothy Springer is an immunologist and professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at Harvard Medical School.
- He was a founding investor in publicly traded biotech outfit Moderna, investing about $5 million in 2010; he now owns an estimated 3% of the firm's shares.
- Springer also owns shares of three smaller publicly traded biotech firms: Cartesian Therapeutics, Scholar Rock and Tectonic Therapeutic.
- He first started teaching at Harvard in 1977 as an assistant professor.
- In 1993, he founded biotech firm LeukoSite and took it public in 1998; the next year, he sold it to Millennium Therapeutics for $635 million.
- In 2017, Springer established the Institute for Protein Innovation, an independent nonprofit focused on researching proteins, with an initial grant of $10 million.
- Springer bikes to work from his home in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
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