Kim Ferguson Email & Phone Number

Boulder, Colorado, United States

--Managed planning and execution of clinical development activities for novel T Regulatory cell stimulator NKTR-358 in collaboration with partner Eli Lilly, including timelines, project plans, and team meetings. --Managed collaborations for evaluation of NKTR-214, a novel cancer immunotherapy candidate, to test in clinical studies in combination with.

South San Francisco, CA

• Prepared agenda and minutes, and followed up on actions for bi-weekly Executive team staff meetings
• Prepared cross-functional updates, timelines and project summaries for quarterly Board of Directors meetings
• Ensured regular updates in key areas of development, commercial, legal and finance functions delivered to CEO and executive team to keep high priority goals on track
• Served as Alliance Manager for cobimetinib, an Exelixis-discovered compound in late stage clinical development by Roche/Genentech, coordinating joint meetings and facilitating follow-up on Exelixis contribution to.
• Managed development of cabozantinib presentations for medical meetings and manuscript submissions

South San Francisco, CA

• Oversaw cabozantinib program deliverables, prepared agendas and minutes for Phase 1-3 clinical study project teams to ensure timelines remained on track
• Coordinated preparation of NDA sections for cabozantinib in medullary thyroid cancer, contributing to on schedule filing and approval in November 2012
• Coordinated reviews of clinical documents by development team senior staff to ensure their timely completion and submission
• Managed development of cabozantinib publications with internal teams, senior management, and clinical investigators, resulting in numerous presentations for major medical meetings such as ASCO
• Managed Promotional Review Committee to ensure COMETRIQTM promotional materials for medullary thyroid cancer were reviewed and approved in timely fashion for submission to regulatory agencies
• Coordinated Distribution and Access sub-team with internal commercial and manufacturing teams to ensure the supply chain for cabozantinib was robust and prepared to meet demand

South San Francisco, CA

• Facilitated interactions with project team internally and with BMS to ensure timelines were met and deliverables were sent to BMS for three Phase 1/1b programs --Coordinated preparation for joint meetings, prepared.
• Managed XL184 co-development with BMS through coordination of Exelixis internal project team activities and facilitation of joint meetings --Coordinated collaboration meetings and prepared minutes to ensure joint.

South San Francisco, CA

• Managed multidisciplinary XL413 development project team internally and with BMS to ensure IND-enabling activities completed and key documents provided to BMS on schedule --Established timelines and oversaw.
• Managed multidisciplinary XL844 internal program, facilitating project team interactions to ensure timely continuation of Phase 1 activities, meeting goal of pancreatic cancer go/no-go decision --Coordinated internal.

South San Francisco, CA

• Managed multidisciplinary scientific teams working on target identification /validation and lead validation/ optimization projects for internal oncology pipeline and collaboration with BMS
• Resulted in advancement of drug candidates through the Exelixis Discovery pipeline, including one into Phase 1 clinical trials
• Resulted in successful validation and HTS readiness of 5 oncology targets selected by either Exelixis or BMS for further development and 3MM$ in milestone payments

South San Francisco, CA

• Managed and executed cell-based assay development and target validation for internal oncology projects
• Resulting data contributed to prioritization of targets in the Exelixis pipeline

South San Francisco, CA

• Involved in planning, management and execution of Metabolic Disease Program using invertebrate models
• Resulted in partnership with Pharmacia Corp. and delivery of 10 novel candidate therapeutic targets for Metabolic Syndrome
• Generated >$1MM in milestone payments

Ph.D., Molecular Biology

B.S., Molecular Biology