St. John Donnie McGrath, M.D.

Dr. McGrath has over 22 years of clinical research and pharmaceutical business development experience. He is currently Chief of Corporate Strategy & Business Development at Biohaven Pharmaceuticals. Dr. McGrath previously spent more than a decade at Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) serving in varying roles of responsibility including Vice President, Business Development, Head of Search & Evaluation and Executive Director in Business Development responsible for neuroscience and virology business development. During his tenure, the business development group executed over 50 major transactions in oncology, neuroscience, cardiovascular, fibrosis, immuno-science, virology and genetically defined diseases. In addition, Dr. McGrath was responsible for overseeing BMS’ venture capital investment portfolio ($350 million) and provided leadership for all global external partnering activities. His initial role with BMS was as a director of clinical research in the virology clinical development group, where he became Group Director and the REYATAZ^® Development Lead. Dr. McGrath oversaw multiple clinical virology programs resulting in seven major FDA filings for REYATAZ^® and SUSTIVA^®, and over 60 EMEA procedures submitted and fulfilled. Prior to BMS, Dr. McGrath was a physician-researcher in the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Disease at Tufts-New England Medical Center, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts Medical School in Boston. From 2002 to 2004, he was based at the Africa Center for Reproductive Health and Population Studies in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, where he established an NIH-funded post-graduate training program in medical informatics with the University of KwaZulu Natal School of Medicine and worked on HIV clinical studies. Dr. McGrath earned his undergraduate degree at University College Dublin, his M.D. from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and his M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed his residency in internal medicine at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, and fellowship in Infectious Disease at Tufts-New England Medical Center.