Annalisa Jenkins' next career chapter takes her back to Europe
Annalisa Jenkins has worked at quite a few places. Before she was the leader of the gene therapy player Dimension — bought out by Ultragenyx $RARE after a setback on the lead program — she has held global R&D positions at Bristol-Myers Squibb $BMY and Merck Serono after leaving the British Royal Navy. And each offered something that the other couldn’t exactly replace.
“One thing I missed at Dimension, and that I was looking to again, was to become more of a global leader, which was what I loved so much when I was at Big Pharma,” Jenkins said. “But what I didn’t want to lose was the agile, really fast paced entrepreneurial side of the smaller biotechs, which I have so enjoyed and gives me so much energy, and which you don’t get at pharma.”
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