Christian Fritz's Biography

Christian Fritz, Vice President, Syros

Christian Fritz, Ph.D., Vice President, Biology Christian joins Syros from Infinity Pharmaceuticals and brings with him more than 15 years of drug discovery experience. At Infinity, he was in charge of biochemistry, cell biology and pharmacology working on compound mechanism of action, novel indications/combinations and the early drug pipeline. He also was instrumental in establishing a molecular pathology group that has developed multiple clinical biomarkers to help predict patient response to Infinity drug candidates. Before Infinity, Christian was at Millennium Pharmaceuticals where he was involved in target discovery and validation, HTS, hit-to-lead and lead optimization. Christian obtained his degree in biochemistry from the University of Hannover and his Ph.D. in molecular biology/genetics from the University of Cologne, working at the Max-Planck Institute. He did postdoctoral work at Harvard and UMass Medical School.