Lynne Zydowsky PhD

Lynne Zydowsky, Ph.D., President, and Co-Founder of the Alexandria Summit and Chief Science Officer of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc./Alexandria Venture Investments, and President of Zydowsky Consultants, is an experienced executive in the life science industry who has been involved in the launching and building of several successful companies. With more than 20 years of experience, she has played key roles in corporate development, operations, and finance. She is a long-standing advocate for biomedical research and the advancement of global health.

In 2003, Dr. Zydowsky founded Zydowsky Consultants, a consulting practice offering services to life science companies. Prior to that, Dr. Zydowsky was Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Renovis, Inc. (now Evotec) and served as Vice President of Pharmaceutical Business Development at Exelixis, Inc. As part of their executive management teams, she contributed to the growth and development of both companies, which led to their initial public offerings.

Dr. Zydowsky earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry from The Ohio State University and was a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School. She has a BS degree in Pharmacy from Butler University.