Naveed was our Chief Scientific Officer from 2020 to 2022. Prior to joining ProQR in 2020 Naveed was Senior Corporate Officer, Head of Global R&D and CSO at Santen, a global ophthalmology company. He has over 20 years of experience in global drug development across start-ups and large multinational companies including Novartis and Genentech/Roche. He has played a significant role in developing important ophthalmology products, including Zaditor®/Zaditen®, Rescula®, Lucentis®, and Omnidenapag. While at Genentech, Naveed helped to establish the Ophthalmology Development Group and led the development and approval of Lucentis®. Naveed received his MD degree from Dow Medical College in Karachi, Pakistan and his PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of South Carolina. He completed fellowships in cornea and external diseases at Harvard Medical School and in histocompatibility and immunogenetics at Massachusetts General Hospital. Naveed was a faculty member at Schepens Eye Research Institute and Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School.

Source: ProQR Therapeutics N.V. on 09/01/2022