Daryl has 30 years of experience in the research and development of liposomal and lipidic nanoparticle (LNP) based therapeutics and vaccines. Daryl is currently the Founder, Chief Scientific Officer, and Senior Vice President of Akagera Medicines. At Akagera, he is advancing the use of sophisticated lipid-based nanotechnologies to deliver novel and highly potent anti-bacterial agents directly to innate immune cell reservoirs for mycobacterium or gram-positive bacterium and mRNA vaccines, targeting some of the world’s most challenging and neglected infectious diseases. Daryl also joined Tidal Therapeutics in 2019 as an SAB member, and later as the Interim Head of Research and Development, prior to be acquired by Sanofi in April 2021. At Sanofi he oversees the engineering and pharmacology of immune cell-targeted mRNA lipid nanoparticles (LNPs).
Through June of 2019, Dr. Drummond served as the Head of Research and Senior Vice President of Discovery for Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, a public biotechnology company headquartered in Cambridge, MA, where he oversaw the discovery efforts for Merrimack’s Nanotherapeutics and Biologics-based therapeutics. Dr. Drummond received a Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry from Indiana University in 1997, with an emphasis on membrane biochemistry and biophysics, and later completed a postdoc under the renowned father of lipid-based drug delivery systems, Demetrios Papahadjopoulos at California Pacific Medical Center in 1999.
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