Steven Paul

Dr. Steven Paul serves as Chief Executive Officer at Karuna Pharmaceuticals. He also serves as Executive Science Adviser at Voyager Therapeutics. He formerly served as Board Member, Chief Executive Officer and President. Dr. Steven Paul serves as a Board of Director at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. He has served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Voyager Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company, since September 2014. Dr. Paul was the founding director of the Appel Alzheimer's Disease Research Institute, and is a Professor of Neurology (Neuroscience), Psychiatry and Pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, and a Venture Partner at Third Rock Ventures, a healthcare venture firm. Dr. Paul served for 17 years at Eli Lilly and Company, a pharmaceutical company, most recently as the Executive Vice President for Science and Technology and President of the Lilly Research Laboratories, a division of Eli Lilly and Company, from July 2003 to his retirement in February 2010. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Prior to joining Lilly, Dr. Paul served in several senior roles at the National Institute of Mental Health, including serving as the Scientific Director of the Intramural Research Program. Dr. Paul also serves as a director of Voyager Therapeutics, Inc. and SAGE Therapeutics, Inc., and formerly served as a director of the Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (which was acquired by Merck KGaA). Dr. Paul brings to Alnylam Pharmaceuticals board more than 20 years of management experience in the pharmaceutical industry and 35 years of scientific research experience.