Portrait of Christian Rank

Chief Development Officer

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BioInnovation Institute (BII)

Christian Rank

  • 2026
  • Attendee

Christian Rank, PhD, is Chief Development Officer at the BioInnovation Institute (BII), a philanthropic life-science accelerator funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF). He is responsible for BII's business development, international scaling and leadership at these sites, incl. CardioMetabolic Bridge (CMB), a NNF-funded pan-European cardiometabolic drug-discovery accelerator with hubs in UK, Germany and Italy. Before BII he held senior R&D, CMC, innovation and manufacturing leadership roles at Novo Nordisk, most recently as Vice President for Data Orchestration in R&D.