Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (NYSE: ARE), the first, preeminent, longest-tenured and pioneering owner, operator and developer of collaborative Megacampus™ ecosystems in AAA life science innovation cluster locations, today announced that the company's board of directors has elected Claire Aldridge, PhD, as an independent director, effective March 14, 2025. The board of directors has also appointed Dr. Aldridge to serve as a member of its Life Science Committee and determined that she is independent in accordance with New York Stock Exchange listing standards and Securities and Exchange Commission rules. Her term will run until the company's 2025 annual meeting of stockholders.
"Dr. Aldridge's distinguished career in the life science industry spans more than 25 years across biotechnology, venture capital, entrepreneurship, technology commercialization and AI-accelerated therapeutic development," said Joel S. Marcus, executive chairman and founder of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. and Alexandria Venture Investments. "Her deep business and scientific experience, which includes facilitating the translation of scientific discoveries into innovative therapies that improve patient lives, will further bolster the combined expertise of our board, and we are honored to welcome her."
Dr. Aldridge was the chief strategy officer of Form Bio, the first spinout from the de-extinction and biodiversity company Colossal Biosciences. At Form Bio, Dr. Aldridge led the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning into genomic analysis and advanced therapeutics programs, such as gene therapy, biological sequence alignment and directed evolution, to accelerate the development of safe and effective new medicines. She also oversaw the generation of vast proprietary datasets needed to train sophisticated AI models. Prior to Form Bio, Dr. Aldridge served as senior vice president, chief of staff and business operations at Taysha Gene Therapies, a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on advancing gene therapies for severe monogenic diseases of the central nervous system. She was previously associate vice president of commercialization and business development at UT Southwestern Medical Center and vice president of venture development at Remeditex Ventures.
Dr. Aldridge currently serves on the scientific advisory board of Colossal Biosciences and on the board of directors of 4E Therapeutics. She is also a member of the Product Development Advisory Committee of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), the $6 billion state agency established to help Texans conquer cancer; a founding advisor for Nucleate Texas, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering the next generation of biotechnology leaders; a participant in Duke University's Entrepreneurial Leaders Network; and past chair of the Industrial Advisory Board of Bioengineering at UT Dallas. In April 2023, she was named one of Forbes' 10 women leading the synthetic biology revolution.
Dr. Aldridge received her PhD from Duke University in the Department of Immunology and the Program in Genetics and Genomics and her Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Science from Texas A&M University.
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