Safi Bahcall
Physicist, biotech entrepreneur and author
Safi Bahcall is an American physicist, business executive and author. He co-founded a cancer-drug biotechnology company and wrote Loonshots.
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American Born 1968
About Safi Bahcall
Born in 1968, Safi Bahcall is an American author who is also a physicist, technologist and business executive. He earned a physics degree at Harvard and a PhD at Stanford, then was a Miller Research Fellow at UC Berkeley. After three years as a consultant at McKinsey, he co-founded Synta Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology company developing new cancer drugs. He led its initial public offering (IPO) and served as chief executive for 13 years. Ernst & Young named him its New England Biotechnology Entrepreneur of the Year in 2008. In 2011 he joined President Obama's science advisers to discuss how national research should develop. Loonshots was his first book.