Newswise — La Jolla, Calif., August 18, 2016 — Christopher J. Larson, Ph.D., is joining the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) as vice president of Drug Discovery and adjunct associate professor. Under Senior Vice President Michael Jackson, Ph.D., Larson will provide operational and scientific oversight of the Conrad Prebys Center for Chemical Genomics and serve as SBP’s Scientific Coordinator for NCI’s Chemical Biology Consortium (NCI-CBC).
Before joining SBP, Larson spent six years at Takeda Pharmaceuticals, where he advanced numerous candidate drugs from research to global clinical development. His most recent position at Takeda was US head and associate global head of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases drug discovery, expanding the company’s research enterprise into several new disease areas.
Earlier in his career, Larson helped launch Karus Therapeutics, a biotechnology company based in Southampton, England, that focused on two innovative classes of small molecule cancer drugs. Prior to that, he led discovery research projects and oversaw translation of the first clinical program at Kemia, Inc., a small biotech in San Diego.
Larson earned his Ph.D. in chemistry at Harvard University and did postdoctoral research at the Salk Institute.
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