Abby Bronson

Senior Vice President of Research Strategy

United States of America

Abby Bronson is the Senior Vice President of Research Strategy at Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy where she develops research strategies and tools that will accelerate drug development in the Duchenne space to bring answers to patients more quickly. She brings experience from a variety of areas, including industry, academic medical centers and NIH.

Previously, she was responsible for Director of Operations at the Division of Clinical Innovation at NCATS. Previous to that she was Manager of Special Projects at Children’s National Medical Center, focusing on rare disease drug development in the neuromuscular space. While at Children’s, Abby facilitated interactions and negotiations with research institutions, industry, patient advocates and federal funders involved in therapeutic development for products to treat Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Previous to Children’s National, Abby held positions of increasing responsibility at MedImmune, most recently being the Director of International Marketing. Abby started her career at Ciba-Geigy and subsequently worked at Medtronic. She holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from the University of Vermont.