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Jørgen Søberg Petersen, MD, PhD, DMSc, MBA, is Hemab’s immediate Past Board Chair. Dr. Pedersen trained in medicine in Denmark and in the United States. During his 20 years in the pharmaceutical industry, he served in executive R&D roles at Lundbeck, Zealand Pharma, Merck, and Novo Nordisk. He co-founded Zealand Pharma and built the company to exit. He has extensive experience in rare disease development and financing of rare disease companies and is currently a Partner at Novo Holdings. He earned an MD, PhD in Pharmacology, and DMSc from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and an MBA from the Technical University of Denmark.