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Timothy M. Wright, M.D. Timothy M. Wright, MD, has been chief R&D officer at Regulus Therapeutics, a clinical stage biotech in San Diego, CA, since 2016. Over the past two decades, he has served in leadership positions from discovery research to late stage pharmaceutical development at Pfizer (2001-2004), Novartis (2004-2015), and the California Institutes for Biomedical Research (Calibr, 2015-2016). In these roles he has contributed to the development of numerous innovative medicines from concept to market. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, Wright attended the University of Delaware (BA, Biology) and received his medical and research training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (MD, Rheumatology, Immunology, Molecular Biology) and the Medical College of Virginia (Internal Medicine). In his early research career, he made advances in the understanding of the biochemistry and molecular biology of signal transduction. Wright held academic positions as a physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins and the University of Pittsburgh where his research was focused on the humoral, cellular, and molecular aspects of immune responses in autoimmune diseases. While at the University of Pittsburgh, he led the formation of the Pittsburgh Arthritis Institute, was chief of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology and was the recipient of the Margaret J. Miller endowed Professorship for Arthritis Research, before moving to the pharmaceutical industry in 2001. Wright serves on the Board of Directors for Schrödinger, Inc. and ENYO Pharma, and as a scientific advisor to several academic and industry organizations.