Before joining Pfizer Venture Investments, Marie-Claire Peakman spent more than 25 years at Pfizer building and leading drug discovery teams, work that contributed to marketed medicines like Paxlovid, Cibinqo, and Litfulo, and she trained in pharmacy and completed her PhD at Nottingham before doing postdoctoral research at Yale. Outside of work, she's a competitive ballroom and Latin American dancer, a hobby she picked up through the Nottingham University Ballroom Dance Society, where she also met her husband.
About their Fund
Pfizer Venture Investments is a strategic venture fund that doesn't require product or technology rights as a condition of investing, giving founders independence while still aiming for future collaboration with Pfizer, and its team blends venture investing with business development and drug discovery expertise to back frontier scientific bets—such as neuroscience, in-vivo cell engineering, dark-genome target discovery, and the blockchain-based longevity accelerator VitaDAO—that many biotech investors avoid. The fund also runs an active China strategy through a locally based venture vehicle and direct investments like OTR Therapeutics, and it has become a channel for strategic deals, with portfolio companies acquired by AbbVie, Ipsen, and Gilead/Kite.
















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