Primary Job Title CEO & Founder Primary Organization Acceleron Pharma
Gender Male
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Knopf co-founded Acceleron in 2003 and is the Chief Executive Officer and President.Knopf served on Acceleron’s board of directors from 2003 to 2004 and from 2007 to the present. Prior to founding Acceleron,Knopf served as Site Head of the Wyeth Research facilities in Cambridge, MA and Vice President of Metabolic and Respiratory Disease.
Knopf was an early key scientist at Genetics Institute (GI) from 1982 to 1998, where he participated in the development of pioneering biopharmaceutical products including the first treatment for hemophilia, recombinant factor VIII Recombinate®, and helped establish GI as a premier biopharmaceutical company.
While at GI, he established a structure-based small molecule discovery group.Knopf is the author of several key scientific manuscripts in the area of signal transduction, and is named as an inventor of several patents.Knopf received a BS in biology from SUNY Stonybrook and a Ph.D. in biology at SUNY Buffalo.
