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Michelle Dipp, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Head of ceedd
Michelle Dipp, M.D., Ph.D., is the Senior Vice President and Head of GSK's Centre of Excellence for External Drug Discovery (ceedd). Dr. Dipp and her team are developing a network of external alliances with world-class biotech companies to bring breakthrough medicines into the GSK pipeline. Previously, Dr. Dipp served as Vice President and Head of the U.S. ceedd. Dr. Dipp is based at Sirtris, a GSK company in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Prior to joining the ceedd, Dr. Dipp was the Vice President of Corporate Development at Sirtris, which is focused on discovering and delivering small molecule drugs to treat diseases of aging. Dr. Dipp played a leading role in orchestrating the successful acquisition of Sirtris by GSK in June 2008 for $720 million.
Before joining Sirtris as a founding employee, Michelle worked in healthcare private equity at The Wellcome Trust, London. Dr. Dipp did her post-doctoral research in the departments of Pharmacology and Cardiothoracic Surgery, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. She has published several papers in peer-reviewed journals in the pulmonary field and is the author of a recently published book titled "Pulmonary Hypertension and Hypopxic Pulmonary Vasoconstriction." She holds an M.D. and a Ph.D. in pulmonary physiology from the University of Oxford.
Dr. Dipp has recently been recognized as one of 11 women named as the 2010 Mass High Tech Women to Watch. In 2009, Dr. Dipp was recognized as a Boston Business Journal 40-under-40 honoree, as an Emerging Pharma Leader by Pharmaceutical Executive magazine and in the PharmaVOICE 100, a list of the 100 most inspiring people in the life-sciences industry. In 2008, Dr. Dipp received the Stevie Award for Women in Business in the category of Best Executive of a non-services business under 100 employees and the Tech Dealmaker of the Year Award in the category of Life Sciences Mergers and Acquisitions.
Dr. Dipp is a member of the Board of Overseers of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Dr. Dipp also serves on the Board of Directors of the City on a Hill Charter School in Roxbury, Mass., and the American Diabetes Association's Greater Boston Leadership Council. Dr. Dipp has taught ballet and rowing to underprivileged children through Kids Enjoy Exercise New (KEEN), and helped start Doctors for Africa, a non-profit organization in the U.K.
