Norbert Bischofberger, Kronos Bio CEO

Dri­ving to the $278M mark on rais­es, a leg­endary R&D ex­pert sets his sights on an­oth­er piv­otal goal line

Think­ing back on his ar­rival at a fledg­ling Kro­nos Bio a lit­tle more than 2 years ago, Nor­bert Bischof­berg­er — oth­er­wise known as em­ploy­ee #5 — was acute­ly aware of the work that need­ed to be done.

“When I start­ed,” he says, “there was an in­ter­est­ing screen­ing method­ol­o­gy, but not much else.”

But for one of the world’s most ac­com­plished R&D ex­ec­u­tives who turned biotech en­tre­pre­neur at 62, the big ques­tion is al­ways the same: “Where’s the drug? Where’s the prod­uct?”

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