Jarrod Borkat is a 15‐year veteran in the biopharmaceutical industry. He currently serves as MedImmune's Senior Director, External Partnerships & Collaborations. In this role he is responsible for establishing and overseeing broad scale collaborations with universities, non‐profit organizations and government entities, across all the therapeutic areas relevant to MedImmune.  MedImmune was founded in 1988 in Gaithersburg and now has a global presence with 2,500 people in the US and UK.