Jan Møller Mikkelsen

Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Ascendis Pharma

Jan Møller Mikkelsen founded Ascendis Pharma in 2007 and has served as President and Chief Executive Officer, as well as Board member since then. From 2002 to 2006, Mr. Mikkelsen was President and Chief Executive Officer of LifeCycle Pharma A/S (now Veloxis Pharmaceuticals A/S). From 2000 to 2002, Mr. Mikkelsen was President of the Pharmaceutical Division of Maxygen, Inc. Prior to that, Mr. Mikkelsen co-founded ProFound Pharma A/S (a biopharmaceutical company acquired by Maxygen, Inc.), where he served as Co-Chief Executive Officer from 1999 to 2000. From 1988 to 1999, Mr. Mikkelsen held various positions at Novo Nordisk A/S, a global healthcare company, including Vice President of Protein Discovery. In late 2021, Mr. Mikkelsen was named Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hummingbird Bioscience, a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on cancer and autoimmune disease. He received a Cand. Scient. degree in Biochemistry from the University of Odense, Denmark and pursued his post-doctoral research at Children’s Hospital Oakland in Oakland, California, U.S.