Timothy Michael Wright M.D., Ph.D.
Chief Research & Development Officer
Dr. Timothy Michael Wright, also known as Tim, M.D., Ph.D., has been Chief Research and Development Officer of Regulus Therapeutics Inc. since October 5, 2016. Dr. Wright oversees Regulus' research, drug discovery, clinical development and regulatory affairs functions. He has been General Counsel and Secretary of National Standard Company Inc. since 1996. He serves as a key scientific advisor to several organizations, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He served as an Executive Vice-President of Translational Sciences at the California Institutes for Biomedical Research (Calibr) since February 2015. He served as Head of Exploratory Development for Novartis AG from 2011 to January 2015. He served as the Global Head of Development at Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation since November 9, 2011 until August 1, 2014. He served a variety of positions with increasing levels of responsibility over 11-year period at Novartis Pharma. He joined Novartis in 2004 and served as Senior Vice President and Global Head of Translational Sciences at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research. Prior to Novartis, he spent three years (from 2001 to 2004) at Pfizer holding leadership positions in Discovery and Clinical Sciences, leading translational research efforts and clinical trials for numerous programs across several therapeutic areas. He served for Pfizer Global Research and Development as the Exploratory Therapy Area Leader for Inflammation. He served as Chief of the Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology and an endowed professor at the University of Pittsburgh until 2001. He has been an Independent Director of ENYO Pharma SAS since November 7, 2016. He serves as a Director of Schr???dinger, LLC. He is a physician-scientist trained at the University of Delaware (BA in Biology) and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (MD, Post-doctoral training).