RRaphael Nir, PhD
President & Chief Scientific Officer

Dr. Raphael Nir has served as President and Chief Scientific Officer of SBH Sciences since co-founding the company in 1997. He started SBH Sciences to fulfill his dream of becoming a key player in the biotech arena, and to help companies develop drugs. Under his management, SBH Sciences has become a leading supplier of recombinant cytokines and a preferred discovery research service provider.

Raphael is an ambitious entrepreneur and has co-founded seven additional biotech and diagnostics companies: Karyopharm Therapeutics, SBH Diagnostics, Woodland Biosciences, Galectin Sciences, Alma Bio Therapeutics, Vuja De Sciences and NeuroDex. To fulfill his vision and help startup companies, he co-founded two additional companies; Sky Ventures and ABI-LAB; a 9-year old bio-incubator located in Natick, MA, currently housing 45 biotechnology companies.