Lee Babiss, Executive Vice President, Global Laboratory Services
PPD, Inc.
As executive vice president of global laboratory services, Lee Babiss, Ph.D., provides strategic direction and scientific expertise to PPD’s bioanalytical, cGMP and global central laboratories, the PPD Vaccines and Biologics Center of Excellence and BioDuro, its Beijing-based drug discovery services company.
Babiss brings to PPD more than 21 years of experience in developing and leading research and development laboratories. He most recently served as president and director of pharmaceutical research for F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd., in Basel, Switzerland, where his responsibilities included creating global laboratory functions in chemistry, discovery technologies, therapeutic proteins, non-clinical safety and informatics. He supported drug discovery efforts in oncology, neurosciences, inflammation, virology and metabolism and was a member of the company’s pharma executive and strategic portfolios committees.
Prior to joining Hoffmann-La Roche, Babiss spent seven years with Glaxo Inc., now GlaxoSmithKline. As vice president of biological sciences and genetics, he had global accountability for developing and implementing the company’s corporate genetics strategy and oncology research efforts focused on the cell cycle.
Babiss earned a doctorate in microbiology from Columbia University and completed his postdoctoral fellowship at The Rockefeller University, where he served as an assistant and associate professor. He has received numerous fellowship awards and grants and serves on several scientific advisory committees and boards.