John Maraganore, PhD, serves as the Chair of Hemab’s Board of Directors. In his nearly 20-year tenure as the founding CEO of Alnylam, he steered the company’s efforts to pioneer RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics, raising over $7 billion to fund its programs and establishing partnerships with more than 25 of the leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. As inventor of bivalirudin, a direct-acting thrombin inhibitor later commercialized as ANGIOMAX™, and formative contributor to Fitusiran, an RNAi therapeutic targeting antithrombin for the treatment of hemophilia A or B, he has deep knowledge of thrombosis and hemostasis research and development. He has a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Chicago, United States.