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Jackie Papkoff

Jackie Papkoff PhD

Biotechnology, Immunology and Microbiology
South San Francisco, California, United States of America

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Dr. Papkoff has worked in both pharma and biotech for over 20 years and has a broad scientific strategy, executive leadership and business experience. She has deep expertise in cell biology and molecular mechanisms of disease, which she has applied to therapeutic and biomarker preclinical discovery & development in oncology, inflammation, and autoimmunity. Prior to joining Assembly Biosciences, Dr. Papkoff was Senior Vice President Research at Evelo Biosciences, where she led the preclinical scientific team to discover, validate and nominate microbial therapeutics for clinical development in oncology indications.

Prior to Evelo, Dr. Papkoff was a founding member of the J&J California Innovation Center, where she served as Vice President of Immunology Scientific Innovation for the Janssen Immunology Therapeutic Area focused on inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Previously, she was CSO of CFD Therapeutics, a cancer-immunology focused antibody therapeutics company she co-founded, and held R&D leadership positions at diaDexus and Aventis pharma. Dr. Papkoff has a BA in Biology from University of California Santa Cruz, a Ph.D. in Biology from University of California San Diego & the Salk Institute, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford and University of California San Francisco.
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