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Alex Karnal

braidwell.com

Alex Karnal, legally Alexander Thomas Karnal in SEC filings, co-founded Braidwell in2021 and leads its investment team as CIO and partner. His own biography describes Deerfield partnership/managing-director and co-portfolio-manager work from2005–2021, helping establish its healthcare innovation campus. He co-founded the nonprofit Institute for Life Changing Medicines and earlier worked in Merrill Lynch equity-linked products/capital markets. He holds MIT and Johns Hopkins science degrees. SEC2026 confirms the same founder/legal identity; no personal portfolio check is inferred.