Biography
<< BackElizabeth Garofalo
Director
Dr. Garofalo has served as a member of our Board since June 2021. Since 2016, Dr. Garofalo has served as the principal for EAG Pharma Consulting LLC. Previously, she served in numerous leadership roles including as Senior Vice President and Global Head of Clinical Development for Novartis and as a member of its Global Development Leadership Team; Chair of the Novartis Portfolio Stewardship Board; Co-Head of the Novartis Neuroscience Franchise; Head of the Neuroscience Therapy Area at Astellas; Ann Arbor Site Head of Worldwide Regulatory Affairs at Pfizer; and Ann Arbor Site Head of Neuroscience at Pfizer. Since September 2020, Dr. Garofalo has served on the board of directors of Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc. and, since September 2021, as a director of Alector, Inc., where she was a member of the audit committee and is chair of the compensation committee. In March 2021 she joined the board of directors of Exicure Inc., a biotechnology company, and in February 2022 was named the chair of its board of directors and a member of its audit and compensation committees. She resigned from the Exicure board in February 2023. She is a director of the non-profit Institute for Advanced Clinical Trials for Children (I-ACT) where she is chair of the board of directors and chair of the Pediatric Oversight Committee. For several years, she was the Chair of the Business Advisory Board for the Epilepsy Foundation of America. She has an M.D. from the Indiana University School of Medicine and completed fellowships in pediatric neurology and epilepsy at the University of Michigan Medical School.