Svp, Technical Operations
San Diego, California, Us
Responsible for leading all activities related to bioprocess, analytical, and formulation development, as well as CMC enabling activities related to manufacturing, supply chain, quality control, and long-term strategy. As a member of the Executive Leadership Team, I have the privilege of working with a world-class group of colleagues and scientifically driven leaders that are re-engineering and re-imagining viral immunotherapies. The best part of my role and responsibility is serving as lead 'team-builder', being the very best coach, mentor, and biggest fan I can be of a highly capable group of scientists and engineers in the Technical Operations team. Every day our quest towards becoming a better high-performing team is realized, one accomplishment at a time.Turnstone Biologics, a privately held clinical stage biotech company, is developing breakthrough cancer immunotherapies by advancing two leading and complementary platforms that drive innate and adaptive tumor immunity, to provide benefit to the millions of cancer patients underserved by current treatment options. Turnstone’s proprietary vaccinia virus platform is engineered to drive coordinated immune activation, potent viral activity, and local expression of encoded therapeutics. The innovative TIL cell therapy platform leverages clinically validated treatment protocols and has been specifically designed to extend beyond the use of bulk TILs to enrich for the most relevant T-cells for tumor eradication, preserving broad antigen diversity and minimizing time to treatment for patients. The Company has an ongoing Phase 1/2a trial in solid tumors (RAPTOR) for its leading oncolytic virus candidate, RIVAL-01, and is expecting to file an IND for the lead TIL therapy candidate, TIDAL-01, in 2021.