Team: Bios
David K. Rosen Entrepreneur in Residence
Dr. David Rosen joined MPM in 2010 as an Entrepreneur in Residence. Before joining MPM, he was the head of corporate out licensing at Pfizer Inc. responsible for spin outs and divestitures of deprioritized research and development programs and commercial products. Beginning in 2007, he and his teams successfully created several pharma spin outs including the formation of a venture capital backed, 80 person life sciences company in Nagoya, Japan. As the head of out licensing, he led Pfizer's efforts to divest of more than two dozen pharmaceutical development programs to both strategic buyers and financial investors.
Prior to his most recent position in out licensing, Dr. Rosen held senior positions in business development in both biotech and large pharma, responsible for the acquisition and partnering of clinical-stage small molecule and large molecule development programs as well as the acquisition of biomarkers, diagnostics and delivery systems to support product development. He has also led product development teams in pharmaceuticals, biologics and diagnostics.
Dr. Rosen received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in Bacteriology and a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Iowa State University, College of Veterinary Medicine. He started his professional career practicing veterinary medicine for nine years before joining the pharmaceutical industry in 1993.