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Jørgen Søberg Petersen

Department

Seed Investments

Position

Senior Partner

After 9 years in clinical and academic medicine in Denmark and in the United States, Jørgen spent 18 years in R&D Executive positions in Denmark, Switzerland, United States, France and Germany. Jørgen co-founded and built the Nasdaq-listed biotech company Zealand Pharma (ZEAL.CO), held senior leadership at Lundbeck and Novo Nordisk, and as SVP at Merck he established the Immunology franchise. He has industrial R&D experience across multiple therapeutic areas, including CNS, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, oncology and autoimmune disease, and has been involved in a number of major pharmaceutical licensing deals and alliances. Jørgen serves on the board of Acesion Pharma, Engimmune Therapeutics, Breye Therapeutics, Hemab Therapeutics, and Tribune Therapeutics.

Jørgen holds MD, PhD, and DMSc degrees from the University of Copenhagen and an MBA degree from the Technical University of Denmark.

Investing to benefit people and the planet

Novo Holdings A/S

Tuborg Havnevej 19

2900 Hellerup Denmark

+45 3527 6500

Email: Info@novoholdings.dk

CVR# 24257630

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Christian Mostrup Scheel

Head of Public Relations

Email: novoholdingsmedia@novo.dk

+45 3067 4805

Novo Holdings US Inc.*

Boston:

200 Clarendon Street, Floor 45

Boston, MA 02116 USA

San Francisco:

One Market Plaza, Floor 17 of the Steuart Tower

San Francisco, CA 94105 USA

+1 (415) 552-6686

Email: Info@novoholdings.dk

Novo Holdings Equity Asia Pte. Ltd.*

#40-01, 6 Battery Road

Singapore 049909

Email: Info@novoholdings.dk

Novo Holdings (UK office)

16 Berkeley Street

London W1J 8DZ

Email: Info@novoholdings.dk

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*Novo Ventures (US) Inc., Novo Holdings US Inc., comprising Novo Growth and Principal Investments, and Novo Holdings Equity Asia Pte. Ltd. are separate legal entities that provide certain consultancy services to Novo Holdings A/S, mainly within the areas of identifying, analysing and negotiating various investment opportunities among life science and biotech companies in the US as well as certain follow-up activities related thereto, such as board memberships, financial control and reporting efforts.

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