Morrie Ruffin

MANAGING PARTNER

Mr. Ruffin has more than 25 years of experience in the regenerative medicine, biotech, and healthcare industries. Prior to founding Adjuvant Partners, he was the Chief Executive Officer of LifeTech Innovations, LLC, a business development consulting firm based in Bethesda, MD. Prior to his position at LTI, Mr. Ruffin was Executive Vice President of Capital Formation and Business Development at the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), the largest trade organization representing the biotech and drug development industries. Joining BIO in 1994 as one of its original employees, Mr. Ruffin was responsible for building the organization's global business development and investor outreach programs focused on helping companies raise capital and identify strategic partnering and licensing opportunities. This BIO business development franchise is now the largest in the world, with operations in the US, Europe, and Japan.

Mr. Ruffin also founded and led several other key industry organizations in the life sciences sector with a primary focus on cell and gene medicine and the application of artificial intelligence in healthcare. He is the co-founder of the Alliance for Regenerative Medicine (ARM), the global organization representing the interests of the cell and gene therapy and tissue engineering communities. Mr. Ruffin built the organization and let it to its international prominence today as the leading global organization representing cell and gene medicine. He now serves as Executive Director of the ARM Foundation for Cell and Gene Medicine which he led the effort to establish in January of 2018. He is also co-founder of the Standards Coordinating Body for Regenerative Medicine and was founder and board member of the Interoperable Informatics Infrastructure Consortium (I3C), an international standards setting body for the bioinformatics industry.

Prior to his work in the private sector, Mr. Ruffin worked for US Senator Arlen Specter for five years as his senior legislative assistant. In his early career he worked for the Systems Planning Corporation International and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Mr. Ruffin received his MA in International Studies & Economics from the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and his BA from the University of Virginia.