About Glenn:
Glenn Noronha has held leadership positions for over 20 years at pharmaceutical and biotech companies, including three start-ups. Most recently, at BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., Glenn was Chief Scientific Officer at BridgeBio owned companies Fortify Therapeutics and Retinagenix Therapeutics, and Head of Translational Medicine at Navire Pharma. At Fortify and Retinagenix, he led R&D for therapies targeting ocular pathologies that are genetic in origin, traversing both preclinical and clinical development; and at Navire, he interfaced across clinical, pharmacokinetics and biomarker efforts in an oncology program. Previously, he served as Chief Scientific Officer at Clearside Biomedical, Inc, a company that focused on ophthalmology. There, he led overall R&D strategy including clinical and regulatory strategy and development from Phase 1 through Phase 3 trials, resulting in a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) New Drug Application (NDA) for the lead program in uveitis. He was also one of the three executives who took Clearside public in 2016. Prior, Glenn was Head of R&D at Sucampo Pharma Americas and Chief Scientific Officer at JW Therapeutics. As Global Lead for Retina Development at Alcon, subsequently part of Novartis, Glenn led six ophthalmology programs from candidate nomination through clinical development and approval. Prior, he played a key role in developing the oncology and ophthalmology programs at TargeGen.
Glenn has overseen end-to-end development in ophthalmology — his experiences include programs in macular degeneration, diabetic eye disease, venous occlusive disease, and uveitis, in addition to programs in oncology, and experience in gastrointestinal (GI) and CNS diseases. His experience spans small molecules, biologics and gene therapies, including programs in rare diseases in ophthalmology. He has involvement with the development of four approved drugs. He has deep experience with health and ethics bodies, and regulatory agencies including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency, in addition to regulatory bodies in Asia. He has over 25 issued and pending patents.