Jeffrey A. Stafford BS, PhD

Jeff brings over 25 years of success in drug discovery to his role as President and CEO of Jecure Therapeutics. Previously, he was the founding CSO of Quanticel Pharmaceuticals, a drug discovery company based on the epigenetic targeting of cancer stem cells and tumor heterogeneity through the pioneering use of single cell genomics.

In 2011 Quanticel entered into an exclusive build-to-buy collaboration with Celgene and was then acquired by Celgene in 2015. Jeff has held senior scientific and management positions at Quanticel, Takeda San Diego, Syrrx, and GlaxoSmithKline, and his teams have discovered 9 development candidates that have advanced into clinical trials, including the marketed drugs, Votrient™ (pazopanib), Nesina™ (alogliptin) and the Phase 3 investigational drug, remimazolam (CNS-7056). Jeff received a B.S. in Chemistry from UCLA and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Cornell University. He completed an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC Berkeley.