profile of manuel peitsch
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8/19/2019 Profile of Manuel Peitsch
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Manuel C. Peitsch
Vice
President,
Biological
Systems
Research
Manuel was appointed Philip Morris International Inc.’s Vice President, Biological Systems
Research, in January 2010.
He joined Philip Morris International in 2008 as Director, Research & Development,
Computational Sciences
and
Bioinformatics.
Before
joining
the
firm,
Manuel
was
Global
Head
of Systems Biology, and Global Head of Informatics and Knowledge Management at Novartis,
where he served since 2001. From 1994 to 2000, he held several positions at GlaxoSmithKline.
He began his career in science at the National Cancer Institute in Frederick, MD.
He received a B.A. in Biology, an M.S. in Physical Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from
the University
of
Lausanne,
Switzerland.
Manuel is a co‐founder and chairman of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Adjunct
Professor of Bioinformatics at the University of Basel, scientific advisor to several academic
and commercial entities and a ComputerWorld Honors laureate.