DR. PINI ORBACH

HEAD OF PHARMA

Dr. Pini Orbach joined Arkin Holdings in 2010 as head of its pharma division. He sits on the board of several of Arkin’s pharmaceutical companies, including UroGen Pharma and Quiet Therapeutics, with which he shares his extensive hands-on experience in drug development and business.

Dr. Orbach’s gained his professional record in US-based companies such as Arisaph Pharmaceuticals and Epix Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: EPIX), as well as Israel-based companies such as cCAM BioTherapeutics, a cancer immunotherapy company sold to Merck in 2015 for $605M

He holds a Ph.D from the department of physiology and functional genomics at the University of Florida, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Cardiovascular Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital.