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

Azmi Nabulsi, MD, MPH

President & CEO

Damien Picard, MD, PhD

Senior Medical Director &
Co-Founder

Darryl Sleep, MD

Chief Medical Officer

Karen Zylberman

Chief of Staff &
Head of Business Operations

Maria Buckley

Senior Vice President,
Development Operations

Moon Hui Kim

Head of People &
Business Management

Pierre Saint-Mezard, PhD, MBA

Chief Scientific Officer &
Co-Founder

Tom Harris

Chief Operating &
Development Officer

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

INVESTORS