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‘Translators’ Will Form The Next Generation Of Biopharma Leaders

Interview With 2020 Rising Leader Rabia Khan

 
• By Lucie Ellis-Taitt

Rabia Khan, managing director of discovery sciences at Sensyne Health, talks to In Vivo about pairing biology with technology in the most effective way, managing COVID-19 challenges and what the future leaders of biopharma might look like.

Blue Lightbulbs

Rabia Khan, a geneticist by training with a PhD from McGill University, established early on that she would be a businesswoman not an academic and alongside her PhD, she collected an MBA. Khan was led into the life sciences because of an interest in high school in genetics and “the concept that four letters define who you become and a combination of those four letters determine the massive diversity that we see today.” The human genome had been sequenced at that point and Khan was “fascinated by trying to understand how different combinations of something so simple can lead to such beautiful outcomes.”

After her PhD, Khan started working in a tech company, Meta Inc., where she experienced the benefits of interdisciplinary teams....

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