Manuel C. Aivado M.D., Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer, Chief Medical Officer & Senior VP
Dr. Manuel C. Aivado, also known as Alves, M.D., Ph.D., has been the Chief Medical Officer, Chief Scientific Officer and Senior Vice President of Aileron Therapeutics, Inc. since September 2014. Dr. Aivado served as Vice President of Clinical Development & Pharmacovigilance at Taiho Oncology, Inc. from March 2012 to September 2014. Prior to Taiho, Dr. Aivado held positions of increasing responsibility at GlaxoSmithKline, Inc., including as Senior Medical Director in the Clinical Development group from October 2006 to March 2012, where he was involved in numerous drug programs including ofatumumab (Arzerra(R)), trametinib (Mekinist(R)), pazopanib (Votrient(R)), and eltrombopag (Promacta(R)). Prior to his industry experience, Dr. Aivado practiced clinical medicine in Germany for ten years. During his clinical career, he directed various molecular cancer research projects, which led him to be awarded the prestigious Dr. Mildred Scheel cancer research scholarship award in 2002. Dr. Aivado was previously an Instructor in Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, where he led the first ever-conducted proteomics research project in Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS). During his work in academia and in the pharmaceutical industry, Dr. Aivado's work has culminated in more than 50 peer-reviewed papers, including research articles in Lancet, Nature Genetics and PNAS. Dr. Aivado is a member of the American Society of Hematology and a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. He is a German Board-certified physician for Internal Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology. Dr. Aivado received an M.D. and Ph.D. from the Medical School of the University of Dusseldorf, in Germany.