Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 3
CB Rank (Person) 186,749
  • Primary Job Title Chief Medical Officer
  • Primary Organization 
    Celgene

Jerome Zeldis M.D., Ph.D. has served as a member of our board of directors since September 2012.

Dr. Zeldis currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Celgene Global Health and the Chief Medical Officer of Celgene Corporation, a public biopharmaceutical company, where he has been employed since 1997.

He previously served as Celgene’s

Senior Vice President of Clinical Research and Medical Affairs. Previously, Dr. Zeldis served as Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Associate Professor of Medicine at University of California, Davis, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Cornell Medical School and Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Dr. Zeldis received an A.B. and M.S. from Brown University and an M.Phil., M.D. and Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry (immunochemistry) from Yale University.

Dr. Zeldis has served on the board of directors of Soligenix, Inc., a public biopharmaceutical company, since June 2011, and on the board of directors of Alliqua, Inc., a public biomedical company, since May 2012.

Number of Current Jobs 2
Number of Past Jobs 6
Jerome Zeldis has 2 current jobs as CEO of Celgene Global Health at Celgene and Chief Medical Officer at Celgene. Additionally, Jerome Zeldis has had 6 past jobs including Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Cornell University
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
University of California
Associate Professor of Medicine
Celgene
Senior Vice President of Clinical Research and Medical Affairs
Harvard Medical School
Clinical and Research Fellow In Gastroenterology
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 3
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 3
Jerome Zeldis holds 3 board and advisor roles including Member of the Board of Directors at PTC Therapeutics, Member of the Board of Directors at Alliqua BioMedical, and Member of the Board of Directors at Soligenix.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Semorex Technologies
Board Member
Arthritis Foundation
Board Member
Bionor Pharma
Board Member
Jerome Zeldis studied at Brown UniversityBrown University, and Yale University.