Flagship Pioneering Announces Appointment of Raj Panjabi as Senior Partner
Former White House Top Health Security Official to Lead Flagship’s Preemptive Health and Medicine Initiative
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Flagship Pioneering, the bioplatform innovation company, today announced that globally distinguished healthcare expert, entrepreneur, and public policy leader Raj Panjabi, M.D., MPH, will join Flagship as Senior Partner. Dr. Panjabi will lead Flagship’s Preemptive Health and Medicine Initiative (PH&M), which is pioneering a new field to protect, maintain, or improve people’s health before they get sick. In its fifth year, the initiative is grounded in the premise that health should be accessible for all and pursues interventions that protect health from external threats (health security) and prevent or delay the onset of diseases (preemptive medicine).