Martin is CEO of IFM Therapeutics. Previously, Martin was the Global Head of Strategic Alliances for the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR) where he and his team executed more than 70 deals. Prior to that, Martin was head of NIBR’s Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF), where he helped advance over 40 clinical candidates, including 25 programs that progressed to the clinic, 13 new molecular entities that achieved positive clinical proof of concept and two marketed drugs. Martin earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in the laboratory of Jeremy R. Knowles. He was a DAAD Fellow at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and received his A.B. from Princeton University.