Irene Blat

Head of External Innovation, North America at Servier Pharmaceuticals

Speaker

Irene Blat is an oncology leader specializing in scientific evaluation and strategic partnerships. She is currently Head of External Innovation, North America at Servier, where she partners with VCs, incubators, accelerators and early-stage biotech to source novel therapeutics and platform technologies to in-license for the oncology and neurology pipelines. Irene’s leadership over the last 11 years spans roles at Servier, Veracyte, and Genuity Science, where she supported strategic collaborations in oncology precision medicine and AI‑driven target discovery. Prior to her transition to industry, Irene started her career as a researcher having trained at the Broad Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital. She holds a Ph.D. in Genetics from MIT, and earned a B.S. in Biology from Duke University.