Dr. Martin Mackay is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rallybio, a biotech start-up dedicated to developing transformative treatments for patients with rare and ultra-rare diseases.
Martin is a Co-Founder and Chairman of Rallybio and has worked in pharmaceutical and biotech R&D for more than 30 years, holding leadership roles at companies including Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Alexion. He is currently on the Boards of Charles River Laboratories where he is Lead Independent Director and Sail Biomedicines. Martin is also a Visiting Professor at Heriot-Watt University in his home city of Edinburgh. He is also a Scientific Advisor at Pivotal BioVenture Partners and on the External Advisory Board of Boston Children’s Hospital. Martin summarizes the three loves in his life as being family, work, and soccer, but not necessarily in that order.
Martin obtained a First-Class Honors Degree in microbiology from Heriot-Watt University and his Ph.D. in molecular genetics from the University of Edinburgh.