Jason Gardner Email Address

Chief Executive Officer, President and Cofounder

Magenta Therapeutics is revolutionizing hematopoietic stem cell transplant for patients with immune and blood-based diseases

Jason is CEO, President and Cofounder of Magenta Therapeutics, a biotechnology company created to transform stem cell transplantation. He joined Atlas Venture as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence to create Magenta, working with Third Rock Ventures. He has held leadership roles in pharma and biotech over 20 years, where he most recently established and ran the GSK R&D Satellite in Boston. He also created and led the Regenerative Medicine Discovery Performance Unit, a global team across R&D that established the stem cell gene therapy programs in pharma and ran multiple collaborations. Jason joined GSK in 2005 following eight years in the biotech arena to become a member of the lapatinib clinical team that led to the successful new drug application file for Tykerb in breast cancer in 2007. He then joined the CEEDD, later leading Research and Alliance Management, where new alliances were established with multiple biotech companies. In 2009, he created the Stem Cell DPU to deliver on the therapeutic and platform promise in regenerative medicine. Under his stewardship, the stem cell gene therapy alliance was formed with Telethon, one of the biggest biomedical charitable foundations in Italy, and GSK's Rare Disease Unit, and the team spearheaded GSK's collaboration with the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. Jason was educated at Cambridge University where he received B.A. and M.A. degrees in Natural Sciences. He completed his Ph.D. at Oxford University and was a Research Fellow in Medicine at Harvard University.