Anat Cohen-Dayag, Ph.D.
Dr. Anat Cohen-Dayag joined Gamida Cell’s Board of Directors in January 2022, with over 25 years of experience in the biotech industry, both in R&D and executive leadership roles. Dr. Cohen-Dayag is President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Compugen Ltd. Under her leadership, Compugen transformed from a service provider in the field of computational biology to a therapeutic discovery and development company advancing an innovative immuno-oncology pipeline originating from the company’s computational discovery platforms. Prior to Compugen, Dr. Cohen-Dayag served as Head of R&D and was a member of the executive management team of Mindsense Biosystems Ltd. She also serves on the board of Pyxis Diagnostics, a private biotechnology company located in Jerusalem, Israel focused on developing a unique platform to identify predictive biomarkers in the field of immuno-oncology.
Dr. Cohen-Dayag holds a B.Sc. in Biology from Ben-Gurion University, and an M.Sc. in Chemical Immunology and a Ph.D. in Cellular Biology, both from the Weizmann Institute of Science.