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Executive Leadership
Joan Mannick, MD
SVP, Chief Medical Officer and Head of Product Development

"Altos has gathered together some of the world’s greatest scientists to discover ways to reverse disease. That is an incredibly ambitious and exciting mission that will change the practice of medicine. I am thrilled to be able to help bring this groundbreaking science to patients."
Dr. Joan Mannick is the Senior Vice President, Chief Medical Officer and Head of Product Development at Altos Labs.
Joan brings extensive drug development expertise to Altos including from her time as the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Tornado Therapeutics. Prior to that, Joan was the Head of Research and Development at Life Biosciences, and Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of resTORbio. resTORbio was a spinout of a clinical program targeting aging biology that she led as an Executive Director at the New Indications Discovery Unit of the Novartis Institutes of Biomedical Research. Before joining Novartis, Joan was a Medical Director at Genzyme working in multiple therapeutic areas and was faculty member at Harvard Medical School and University of Massachusetts Medical School. Joan received her A.B. from Harvard College and her M.D. from Harvard Medical School.