Our team
Vaderis was founded on the belief that science guided with courage, and carried out with genuine empathy, can change life for people living with rare vascular diseases. In 2019, we turned that belief into action by focusing on one of the field’s most overlooked and life-altering conditions: hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), a disease with no approved therapies, little global awareness, and a profound impact on patients and families.
That commitment has led to the development of a first-of-its-kind oral therapy designed to restore vascular balance, supported by a targeted AKT inhibition approach.
Our work is grounded in persistence, humility, and collaboration. We are a team of scientists, clinicians, operators and leaders who have spent our careers bringing new medicines to people with complex, underserved diseases. Today, we are channeling that experience into creating real therapeutic options for patients who have long had none.
VADERIS LEADERSHIP
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Giovanni Mariggi (Chair)
Co-founder & Partner, Medicxi
Damien Picard, MD, PhD
Co-Founder, Vaderis Therapeutics
Luc Dochez
Managing Partner, DROIA Ventures
Nick Williams
Partner, Medicxi
Rahul Ballal, PhD
CEO, Mediar Therapeutics
Dr. Trevor Baglin, MD, PhD
Venture Advisor, Medicxi
SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD
Dr. Elisabetta Buscarini, MD
Formerly of HHT Centre Crema Ospedale, Italy
Franck Lebrin, PhD
Leiden University Medical Center
Prof. Guillaume Canaud, MD, PhD
Paris Necker Hospital
Paris Descartes University
Dr. Hans-Jurgen Mager, MD, PhD
Netherlands Reference Centre for HHT
at St Antonius
The HHT International Foundation
Dr. Hanny Al-Samkari, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Dr. Trevor Baglin, MD, PhD
Medicxi